After social media in Saudi Arabia buzzed with a video showing A girl assaulted her classmate and kicked her hard And bullying her, legal advisor Bandar Al-Amoudi commented on the incident.
Al-Amoudi told Al-Arabiya.net that bullying is considered a bad behavior in society in its various sectors, pointing out that its punishment varies according to the place, circumstances and parties of the case.
Schools are different from workplaces
He also explained that the punishment for bullying in schools differs from that at work. As for bullying among minors, the punishment for the minor varies and varies according to the size, gravity, seriousness, and damages resulting from the act of bullying, indicating that the penalties range from warning the minor and notifying his guardian from the parents and taking a written pledge from the minor not to repeat it. Do it and summon the guardian and alert him to the conduct of his son.
He also revealed that the penalties for the minor amount to deduction of grades from the student, referral to the student advisor, transfer to another class, and transfer to another distant school, and may reach larger penalties depending on the size of the act of bullying and its results.
fine and imprisonment
He added that there are special regulations for juveniles according to age and the seriousness and consequences of bullying, as for the “age of criminal responsibility”, and for penalties related to the juvenile (non-adult), the matter is not clearly defined, but the courts tend to adopt the age of 15 years.
However, he added that there is a decision of the former Shura Council in the Kingdom, which took the age of 18 years to arrange responsibility, for example.
He also pointed out that other laws related to, for example, nationality and residence, for example, also considered that a minor is every person who has not reached the age of 18 years.
However, he pointed out that the punishment in Saudi Arabia for the bully is to pay a fine of up to 500,000 Saudi riyals in addition to imprisonment for a period of up to a year or one of the two penalties if the accusation against them is proven when they commit acts of bullying.
wide anger
It is noteworthy that the video of the girl who suddenly beat her companion, spread like wildfire last week on social media platforms in Saudi Arabia, sparking widespread anger at the behavior of the assailant, which necessitated the intervention of the Riyadh police.
Later, the Police General Command announced that it had identified the aggressor, and that the competent authorities had taken legal measures against her.