Regulatory Protection of the Right to Freedom of Movement and the Right to Physical Integrity during the Arrest Procedure: A Comparative Study between the Saudi Legal System, and UAE Law

Abstract

International and local efforts in Gulf countries in general and in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in particular have focused on providing a supportive legal environment for the protection of rights and freedoms, in particular the right to freedom of movement and the right to physical integrity. This research aims to clarify the availability of the regulatory protection of the right to freedom of movement and the right to physical integrity in international law. It also discusses and analyzes the regulatory protection of the right to freedom of movement and the right to physical integrity in the Saudi legal system and UAE law, and what violation of these two rights arrest procedures, as a criminal investigation procedure, may cause.
The research focused on discussing the legal, personal, and temporal controls to protect the right to freedom of movement, and the regulation on good treatment and physical integrity within a time frame of arrest to protect the right to physical integrity during arrest.
The research found a great deal of protection, with the need for more training of the competent authority to avoid any transgression against either of the two rights. It recommended that some regulations and legal texts should be amended to ensure protection in an optimal way.