The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) will sign a memorandum of understanding with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice – the Hai'a – within the next few weeks, NSHR head Mufleh Al-Qahtani, has said. Following a meeting with Abdul Aziz Al-Humain, General President of the Hai'a, Al-Qahtani said the NSHR had been invited to visit regional Hai'a centers to see how they operate. “We were happy to see the Hai'a progressing and its new strategic plans,” Al-Qahtani said of the meeting. “They answered all our questions.” Al-Qahtani said the one-and-a-half hour meeting addressed recent comments from the public on the work of the Hai'a. Al-Qahtani said a recent NSHR report that directed criticism at a number of government bodies was “carried out according to certain standards. It was transparent and neutral, and only aimed to develop rights work in the country.”
