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Confusion surrounded the arrest of a senior Saudi Sharia judge on drugs charges in Dubai this week, as Saudi authorities insisted they’d never heard of the detained man.
The Khaleej Times reported on Monday that top Sharia judge Hamad Salim bin Naif and his wife had been busted with four grams of cannabis in his hotel room though two days later the Saudi Justice Ministry disputed the story.
However, on the same day the Al-Riyadh newspaper reported from Dubai that the judge ‘has been teaching at a Saudi university and used to lead prayers at a mosque in Jeddah while he served as a judge.” (ArabNews)
Arab News also quoted ‘unnamed sources’ in the Dubai police who said ‘“The man is in his 40s while the wife is her early 30s’. “The occupation on his passport shows that he was a judge,” the other source added.
The Khaleej Times reported on Monday that top Sharia judge Hamad Salim bin Naif and his wife had been busted with four grams of cannabis in his hotel room though two days later the Saudi Justice Ministry disputed the story.
However, on the same day the Al-Riyadh newspaper reported from Dubai that the judge ‘has been teaching at a Saudi university and used to lead prayers at a mosque in Jeddah while he served as a judge.” (ArabNews)
Arab News also quoted ‘unnamed sources’ in the Dubai police who said ‘“The man is in his 40s while the wife is her early 30s’. “The occupation on his passport shows that he was a judge,” the other source added.