The family of Hussein Bandar Mufri' Al-Inizi, who was killed in the Syrian city of Homs while on an academic scholarship, is hiring a lawyer to follow up their son's case. Waleed Muhammad Al-Inizi, spokesman for the bereaved family, said: “We are completing procedures to hire a law office in the Kingdom to uncover the details of Al-Inizi's killing and bring those involved in killing Hussein and exhuming his body from the grave to justice.” He criticized the evasion by the Syrian authorities in specifying where the body was buried. He said Syria's Ministry of Interior told them implicitly on Nov. 22 that they had Hussein Al-Inizi's body under the pretext of issuing a forensic report on the causes of his death. “The ministry said that there was no objection to handing over his body to them. But those were mere words that were not followed by deeds. They did not conduct any investigations nor specify where the body was,” Al-Inizi said. The Syrian government tried to force the maternal uncles of the dead Saudi man to receive his body and bury it immediately at an unspecified place. However, the family rejected this and insisted on receiving permission from the Saudi Embassy in Damascus. The Saudi charge d'affaires had insisted that the body be handed over to the Saudi Embassy directly “in order not to give them the chance to falsify the facts.” “The family are now in the process of internationalizing the case in coordination with their lawyer. They intend to write to international and regional human rights organizations and intend to summon eyewitnesses,” Al-Inizi said. Hussein's family have criticized human rights bodies for their delay in tackling the case. They said that though they “received several telephone calls from lawyers” willing to take up Hussein's case, “the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) have not offered any support yet”. __
