- JEDDAH: The committee that looks after the affairs of prisoners, ex-convicts and their families (Tarahum) has enabled an elderly woman from Uhud Al-Masarha district to talk to her daughter for the first time in seven years.
- The mother was able to talk to her daughter, who is in a Jazan prison, using the Skype technology.
The daughter has been suspected of murder and has been detained in prison for seven years. Her old and sick mother had not seen or spoken to her ever since.
Chairperson of the committee's women section Aisha bint Shakir Al-Zikri said the elderly woman was very happy to talk and actually see her imprisoned daughter after these long years.
She said members of the committee and a number of social personalities in Jazan would visit the women prisoners to congratulate them on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr and to distribute gifts among them on this occasion.
She explained that gifts would consist of dresses and accessories for women and toys for their children.
Aisha said through the help of a philanthropist, the committee had begun to refurnish a house of a Saudi prisoner in Dhiba area. She added that the committee would pay financial assistance to 11 poor families whose breadwinners had been in prisons for many years.
