Ramadan amnesty: Who are eligible and who are not

BURAIDAH: The Ministry of Interior excluded a number of crimes from the purview of amnesty granted during Ramadan. They include ruqyah, or spiritual healing, assault on the general authority of teachers and members of the teaching faculty and cases infringing on the security of the state, murder and theft.
The amnesty also excludes harboring runaway girls, harassment of minors, kidnapping, rape, pimping, incest, drugs, as well magic, and torturing children and people with disabilities.
Exclusions also include the impersonation of public authority figures, money laundering, human smuggling and manufacturing, assembling and developing weapons and explosives. Those involved in firing at government facilities, financial corruption, fraud, bouncing checks, wearing a military uniform for violating work, and publishing confidential information from inside prisons are also not covered under the amnesty.
The amnesty excludes people involved in criminal violations stipulated in the financial market system, blasphemy, degrading the Qur'an and committing immoral acts in public.
Sources revealed that cases included in the Ramadan amnesty include manslaughter; felonies; minor theft; if people served half of their sentences without any prior conviction. Immoral acts are also included if the private right has expired if it existed, and assault on property if the criminal has one year left of his sentence.
Amnesty includes cases of drugs and alcohol for the fourth time or less, as well as possession for the first time if the amount was small; disobeying parents is included if the private right was wavered; minor broker cases; Saudi prisoners and expatriates sentenced for Qat cases; prisoners convicted of financial penalties whose parole is pending payment.