Emirati businessman Abdel Rahim Mohamed Balaghzuz Al-Zarouni sponsored the expenses of returning 613 prisoners to their home countries within the humanitarian campaign “Reunification” launched by “Emirates Today” and the General Command of Dubai Police yesterday, in a rapid response to help these prisoners of different nationalities who ended their judicial rulings , And deportees outside the state, and they need travel tickets to return to their countries, and reunite their families.
The campaign includes two prisoners of Gulf nationality, 48 prisoners of Arab nationality, 367 prisoners of Asian nationality, 187 prisoners of African nationality, and nine prisoners of European nationality. The campaign comes within the initiatives of the newspaper community.
"Reunification" aims at community participation by individuals and institutions of society in contributing to such community initiatives that are in the public interest, and this initiative comes within the initiatives of "Emirates Today" through the hotline this year.
Brigadier Ali Mohammed Al Shamali, Director of the General Department of Punitive and Correctional Institutions in Dubai Police said: “We thank the contribution of the Emirati businessman, Abdul Rahim Mohammed Balghuz Al Zarzouni, in his generous support for the campaign (family unification), as this matter is not strange for him in supporting humanitarian and social initiatives in the country, as well Thanks and gratitude to those whose hands were generous with goodness, and his great self in giving and giving to the happiness of the inmates and included in the campaign, who lost their means of returning to their homeland, and reuniting with their families and their families, and they desperately need white hands in the Emirati society who contribute to alleviating the suffering and happiness of all The needy, in particular the inmates of penal and correctional facilities.
He added: "This donation demonstrates a high sense of social responsibility from Abdel Rahim Al Zarouni, and this is evidence of the love of businessmen, the private sector and citizens to participate in supporting such community initiatives."
He pointed out that «the provision of travel expenses for the prisoners included in the campaign (reunification) will contribute to their repatriation and reunification with their families and start a new life, and that the Committee to consider requests for humanitarian assistance in the institution will, during the coming days, end the travel procedures for those included in the campaign.
Al-Shamali said: “We thank Emirates Today newspaper for adopting a community initiative that serves the inmates of punitive and correctional facilities, and calls for community participation between individuals and institutions in the country in light of the fact that this humanitarian campaign embodies the values of tolerance and fraternity embedded in the Emirati society, and it considers these prisoners to start a new life And to meet their loved ones and reunite their families ».
Head of the hotline division, colleague Ahmed Al-Muzahmi, said: “We thank the Emirati businessman Abdel Rahim Mohamed Balghzouz Al-Zarouni for his generous donation in the cost of travel expenses of 613 prisoners to their countries, and their families were not included in the campaign (family unification) adopted by Emirates Today through its humanitarian line (Hotline), in cooperation with the Dubai Police General Command. ”
He added that «the committee to consider requests for humanitarian aid in the General Administration of Punitive and Correctional Institutions in Dubai Police, provided the newspaper with statements of the prisoners included in the campaign, after confirming their studies regarding making sure that they had finished their sentence, and a ruling of deportation was issued against them.
He pointed out that «this campaign to free the prisoner’s head in cooperation with the Dubai Police is not the first for the newspaper, but rather many cases of prisoners deserving of assistance were addressed, including those who resulted in financial cases, legal deeds or travel tickets».
His Excellency and thanks
The price of prisoners included in the campaign (reunification) that guaranteed the donor to pay the expenses of travel tickets for their return to their home countries, and reunited them with their families, expressing their happiness and deep thanks to this noble stand, and the campaigners, both from the General Command of Dubai Police, represented in the General Administration of Punitive and Correctional Institutions In Dubai police, and also in the newspaper «Emirates Today» to adopt a community campaign in the public interest.