The study includes guidelines preventing existing types of pressure exercised to exploit foreign workers in any other job than the one for which they have been originally hired for, he told Al-Madina.
The study has recommended to decision makers to make it mandatory for employers to compensate their workers for any extra hours they work in addition to what is stated in their contracts, he said.
The NHRS has been recently active in advancing the human right cases of foreign workers in the Kingdom in cooperation with the government agencies.
The Society has taken further steps to follow up on cases of human rights with the court system. In fact, there are no red lines to stop the Society from visiting the Shariah Courts to follow up on cases related to human rights, he said.
The NHRS recently visited Sheikh Saleh Al-Lehadan, head of the Supreme Judiciary Council and Sheikh Saleh Aal Al-Sheikh, Minister of Justice as well for discussion on human rights issues in the Kingdom.
"The Society also visited the General Court and the Society’s members met with the Court’s Chief Judge," he said.
The Society does not intervene in courts’ rulings except in certain cases.
It has been the rule that the Society does not influence a court’s ruling by speaking to the media about a case before a ruling has been handed down as to not affect the course of justice.
"But sometimes we intervene in the procedures leading to a verdict. It is in everybody’s best interest to see the court applying the rules issued by Royal decrees concerning the legal system of proceedings, Shariah defense rule, and courts’ system in general," he said.
The Society has adopted a plan to open 13 new branches across the Kingdom to promulgate the culture of human rights in Saudi society.
About the Society’s stand towards people being held in prisons for their inability to pay debt, he said "The Society intervenes after making sure that plaintiffs have taken all necessary and legal steps to collect their debts including approaching the Society itself to help them with collection efforts," he said.
Acting on complaints from inmates, the board of directors of the Human Rights Commission would set up a plan to inspect prisons across the nation to look into these complaints and work on them, especially the big ones, said Dr. Zuhair Al-Harithy, spokesman of the Commission.
"Whether big or small, any complaints from an inmate would be given due attention," he told Al-Hayat.
The Commission’s members were briefed on a plan by the General Prisons Authority for the construction of new prisons that comply with the international standards, he said.
A prison should ensure an environment to suit a human being regardless of the time spent, he said.
"There are conditions prisons are assumed to meet," he said.
Al-Harithy has called on courts to apply "alternative penalties to prison time to reduce pressure and overcrowding at prisons."
On a different topic including Saudi prisoners in foreign countries, he called on the Syrian authorities to maintain transparency surrounding the Saudi detainees in Syrian prisons.
There have been reports about some gangs who ambush Saudis once they arrive in Syria, involving them in crime and leading them to trial and prison time; a matter that is still a mysterious for us," he said.
He pointed out most of the cases of the Saudi detainees in Syria have been said to be criminal cases.
The interior ministry and officials in Saudi embassies abroad need to come forward with more precise explanation of the allegation leveled against the Saudi detainees and provide them with necessary legal assistance, he said.
