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Saher system is an automated traffic enforcement camera system covering major cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [1] [2] The system uses digital cameras network technology connected to the National Information Center of the Ministry of Interior . The technology used is a network of digital instantaneous speed measurement and multipurpose ...
Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia is a legal punishment, with most executions in the country being carried out by decapitation (beheading) – Saudi Arabia being the only country in the world to still use the method. [1] In 2022, recorded executions in Saudi Arabia reached 196, the highest number recorded in the country for any year over the ...
The logo of the women to drive movement. Until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles. The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية qiyādat al-marʾa fī as-Suʿūdiyya) was a campaign by Saudi women, whom the government denies many rights to which men are entitled, for the right ...
Crime in Saudi Arabia. A traffic police car in Riyadh. Crime in Saudi Arabia is low [1] [2] [3] compared to industrialized nations. Criminal activity does not typically target foreigners and is mostly drug-related. [3] Petty crime such as pickpocketing and bag snatching does occur, but is extremely uncommon.
In 2017, most of all IRTAD countries have a default speed limit in urban roads of 50 km/h, with various lower speeds, for instance, in the Netherlands, 70% of the urban roads are limited to 30 km/h. [3] Some countries, for instance the US, India or China, do not have a specific urban road maximum speed.
With respect to human trafficking, Saudi Arabia was designated, together with Italy, Japan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Israel, Iceland, Norway, and Angola, as a Tier 2 country by the United States Department of State in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report required by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 on which this article ...
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
In contrast to this punishment, Maha al-Qahtani, the first woman in Saudi Arabia to receive a traffic ticket, was only fined for the violation itself. The whipping was the first time a woman was punished under the law for driving.