Al-Hajjar named Shoura Council vice president

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday appointed Bandar Al-Hajjar, who is the president of the National Society for Human Rights, as the new vice president of the Shoura Council. "Dr. Bandar bin Muhammad Hamza Asaad Hajjar has been appointed the deputy to the Shoura Council president in the rank of minister," the royal court said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.