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II. Key Recommendations

Children in Detention

  • Ensure that children are only detained as a measure of last resort, and for the shortest possible time.
  • Ensure that all children in detention are protected from all forms of exploitation, abuse, and neglect.
  • End the use of corporal punishment, solitary confinement, denial of family visits, and other forms of ill-treatment of children deprived of their liberty.
  • Ensure that children deprived of their liberty have access to adequate legal and other appropriate assistance.
  • Ensure that no foreign child is repatriated to a situation that places him or her at risk of irreparable harm.

Children and the Criminal Law

  • Ensure that no one is sentenced to death or executed for offenses committed while under age 18. Immediately commute existing death sentences issued against persons under age 18 at the time of the crime to sentences in conformity with international juvenile justice standards. Inform the persons concerned, and, for foreign nationals, their embassies, in writing of the new sentences.
  • Ensure that all persons under age 18 at the time of the alleged commission of an offense benefit from the international rights and standards for children in conflict with the law, in compliance with Saudi Arabia’s treaty obligations.