A court specialised in "terror crimes" has issued its verdicts in the case 
of 1,612 people, while 603 other cases are still being examined, the Bureau of 
Investigation and Prosecution said in a statement carried by SPA state news 
agency.
Prosecutors were also preparing charges against 934 suspects, while still 
investigating the cases of 1,931 others before referring them to the court, it 
said.
"The total number of terror suspects... is 5,080," said the statement.
The Riyadh court, which operates secretly, was set up to try those 
suspected of links to Al-Qaeda jihadist network.
The government has arrested scores of people for alleged involvement in 
Al-Qaeda attacks or plots inside Saudi Arabia, especially between 2003 and 2006.
In a May 2009 petition to King Abdullah, 77 reform advocates criticised the 
secrecy of the trials and said any judgements reached by the "ad hoc security 
courts" would be questionable.(*)
(U.KR-IFB/M016)
Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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