A new rehabilitation center to help reform those influenced by extremist ideas opened in Jeddah on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Prince Muhammad bin Naif opened the new buildings for the Prince Muhammad bin Naif Center for Counseling and Care, which will house 228 beneficiaries over an area of 76,000 square meters.
The facility includes classrooms, a mosque, medical clinics, dining halls, sports fields, recreation halls and administrative buildings.
“The centers in Riyadh and Jeddah for rehabilitation programs, which were launched in early 2006, are two of the five centers planned in line with the ministry’s strategy to protect the youth from the influence of deviant ideologies,” said spokesman of the interior ministry Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki in a statement on Thursday.
After the inaugural function, the prince toured the lecture halls, language laboratories, football field, basketball court, swimming pools, sports and games halls, kitchen and laundries.
The center has helped reintroduce 2,657 youths, who were under the influence of deviant ideologies, into mainstream and moderate thinking, said Al-Turki.
In the Jeddah center, hundreds of persons were liberated from the vicious influence of extremism, he said.
Rehab to tackle deviant ideas opens
