Who’s Who: Zuhair Al-Zouman, member of the Public Prosecution

Zuhair Al-Zouman
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Zuhair Al-Zouman has been a member of the Public Prosecution since 1996 and is currently at appellant ranking.

He worked in the investigation departments and oversight of prisons and detention centers, and since 2003 worked at the research and studies center.

He has also been a member of the Human Rights Commission since 2016.

Al-Zouman gained a bachelor’s degree in law from King Saud University, Riyadh in 1995, and a diploma in criminal law from the Institute of Public Administration in 1997.

Since 2016 he has been president of the the Human Rights Commission’s standing committee on responses and vice president of the standing committee for reporting.

He represented the Public Prosecution at the meeting of heads of research and studies centers in public prosecutions in Arab countries at the Arab Center for Legal and Judicial Research of the League of Arab States.

Al-Zouman taught judicial systems — the system of criminal procedures, the system of legal pleadings, the legal system — in the training city of the Public Security in Riyadh for a full semester in 2009.

He trained officers in the Public Security Training City according to the Criminal Procedures Law 2010.

In 2013, he was a member of the Kingdom’s delegation in Geneva to present a comprehensive report on human rights.

He was also a member of the Kingdom’s delegation in Vienna in 2014 to participate in the 7th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.