JEDDAH: The Prince Muhammad Bin Naif Al-Munasaha Center for the rehabilitation of persons connected to “deviant ideology” has released 11 persons back into society after they successfully underwent the center's various training programs, a spokesman said Tuesday. “The 11 will continue to undergo programs to assist their adjustment to a new social life,” he said. The spokesman said that some of the 11 – the 16th group to be returned to society through Al-Munasaha - had gone on the Haj pilgrimage last year through an annual scheme run by the center for detainees and their families, while two have enrolled at Imam Bin Saud University and three others are expected to take a computer studies course at King Saud University. A security official told Al-Hayat Arabic daily that the 11 were detained inside the Kingdom. Some of them had returned, he said, from “regions of conflict”. To date, 349 persons have been put through the center's program, he said, 109 of whom were returned to the Kingdom from Guantanamo detention center. The Al-Munasaha Center was set up in 2006 at the instigation of Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, to confront the ideology of detainees through programs and courses run by experts in Shariah sciences, sociology and psychology.
