Saudi says unaware of judge arrested in Dubai

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RIYADH (AFP) — The Saudi justice ministry said on Tuesday it was investigating a report that a Saudi judge was arrested in Dubai on drugs charges but insisted it had not even heard of the detained man's name.

The Khaleej Times on Monday quoted a Dubai police source as saying that the judge Hamad Salim bin Naif, who served as head of an Islamic court, had been arrested in the Gulf emirate on charges of possessing and using drugs.

"The ministry stated that it has no information about the report published in the Emirati newspaper Khaleej Times and quoted by Agence France Presse and then Internet sites about the Dubai police's arrest of a Saudi judge," the official SPA news agency said.

The ministry, in its first official reaction to the report, said that "none...