Saudi Religious Police Will Add Human Rights Unit

ANI reports today that Saudi Arabia's religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, is setting up a new human rights unit to deal with human rights "in accord with just Islamic principles and international rights treaties." This is part of a broader restructuring of the Commission. However human rights activists call the move a hypocritical attempt to deal with the Commission's tarnished image and increased scrutiny of it by human rights organizations.