Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Chairs Cabinet Meeting 3 Madinah

The cabinet formed a committee to fight crimes of human trafficking
at the Human Rights Commission. Its members include representatives
from the Ministry of Interior, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Justice,
Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Labor, and Ministry of
Culture and Information in addition to the Human Rights Commission.

The committee shall follow up the situation of victims of human
trafficking to ensure that they are not harmed again.

The committee shall coordinate with concerned authorities to
repatriate foreign victims whenever they request it.

The committee shall recommend keeping the victim in the kingdom and
correct the victim's legal status for work if necessary.

The most prominent features of the regulation are:

1- All forms of Human Trafficking in are banned. These forms include
any person's coercion, threat, deception, deceit or abduction; misuse
of position, influence or authority against him; taking advantage of
his weakness or giving or receiving money or advantages to gain
approval of a person having control over another for sexual acts,
work, coercive service, begging, slavery, practices similar to
slavery, organs' removal or performing medical tests on him/her.

2- Any one committing the crime of trafficking in persons shall be
punished with either imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 years
or a fine not exceeding one million Saudi Riyals or with both of
them. The punishments in this regulation shall be increased in a
number of cases including:

A- If it is committed against a woman or any one with special needs,

B- If it is committed against a child even if the perpetrator did not
know that the victim was a child,

C- If the perpetrator victimized a spouse or one of the victim's
close relatives, or if the perpetrator was a guardian or having
authority over the victim,

D- If the perpetrator was an official of the regulations'
enforcement,

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