Launched by "Emirates Today" and Ras Al Khaimah Police to collect 643,000 dirhams

A humanitarian campaign to release 4 financially impoverished citizens

• «Emirates Today» helped 173 inmate families in previous initiatives.

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• Abdullah Al-Haimer: "The campaign comes within the framework of community humanitarian initiatives to relieve the distress of financially distressed prisoners."

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Today, "Emirates Today" and the Ras Al Khaimah Police, represented by the Punitive and Correctional Institution, are launching a campaign to release four citizen prisoners from defaulters in financial cases, their debts amounting to 642,649 dirhams, as part of the newspaper's community initiatives.

The campaign comes as part of the "hotline" initiatives to release many inmates of correctional and penal facilities who defaulted in financial cases and legitimate blood money, and "Emirates Today" was provided with the numbers and names of those included in the initiative, after studying their files and approved by the Committee to Study Cases of Prisoners in the Punitive and Correctional Institution in Ras Al Khaimah, which succeeded in settling the amount of indebtedness for those included in the campaign, from 1,518,885 dirhams to 642,649 dirhams.

The Director of the Punitive and Correctional Institution in Ras Al Khaimah, Colonel Abdullah Muhammad Saeed Rashid Al Haimer, said that "the campaign comes within the humanitarian community initiatives to relieve the distress of financially distressed prisoners, and aims to release four citizen prisoners languishing in the Punitive and Correctional Institution in Ras Al Khaimah. Those convicted of financial issues, whose debts amount to 642,649 dirhams,” stressing that the administration’s role lies in launching community initiatives that translate the leadership’s policy in humanitarian charitable work.

He added that "the launch of the campaign comes within the framework of supporting the foundation's programs related to extending a helping hand and assistance to the targeted groups of the inmates of the penal and correctional institution to release them and alleviate the suffering of their families."

He pointed out that “the process of selecting prisoners who benefited from the campaign is subject to precise criteria, and the committee for studying prisoners’ cases in the institution studies the cases, ascertains the extent of their entitlement to assistance, and takes care of the cases whose sentences have ended, and the committee takes into account the daily cost of the prisoner, compared to the amount claimed.” .

He explained that all the names included in the initiative were studied by the committee, and the cases whose owners were involved in criminal cases were excluded, calling on the creditors to cooperate with the institution with their support.

Al-Haymar called on government and private institutions to focus on social responsibility, adding that institutions have a responsibility towards all segments of society, including insolvent prisoners and their families.

The editor-in-chief of "Emirates Today", Abdullah Al-Qamzi, said that the campaign comes within the framework of social responsibility, and coincides with the initiatives of the community newspaper, expressing his hope that donors and philanthropists will provide enough to release the beneficiaries of the initiative.

Al-Qamzi confirmed that the newspaper’s initiatives with the departments of penal and correctional institutions at the state level succeeded, during the past five years, in releasing 919 prisoners, thanks to the interaction of “people of goodness”, who provided 79 million and 400 thousand dirhams, noting that the newspaper takes it upon itself to raise awareness of the dangers of Uncalculated consumer borrowing, which plunges its owners into prisons, in parallel with its endeavor to release the insolvent whose families were affected by their absence, and during these years the door to help the families of prisoners was opened.

It is noteworthy that «Emirates Today» contributed to helping 173 inmate families through previous campaigns, with a value of two million and 982 thousand dirhams.

bitter borrowing

Prisoners included in the campaign confirmed that it was the difficult life conditions that led them behind prison bars, pointing out that borrowing at the beginning is sweet for a person, but quickly turns into a nightmare in the end, and leads to a legal claim, and in the event that a person is unable to pay for certain circumstances. He finds himself behind bars.

They advised individuals in society, especially young people, to wait and study the situation well before thinking about borrowing.

They appealed to good people and people of merciful hearts to extend a helping hand to them and help them pay the sums of financial cases incurred by them in light of the difficult circumstances they are going through.

Settling the amount of indebtedness for those included in the campaign from 1.5 million to 642 thousand dirhams.