Cairo, March 17, 2020, SPA -- The President of Arab Human Rights Commission Counselor Mohammed Al-Dhahi today lauded the measures taken by Arab countries to prevent Coronavirus spread to protect their citizens and expatriates on their territories. In a press statement, he underscored the importance of that all measures taken be compatible with the human rights standards, citing that health quarantine measures be matching with the risks, safe, inevitable and timely restricted. He demanded the Arab countries to meet their obligations to protect the most weakest social segments in such circumstances as they will be most vulnerable particularly the elderly, the patients, the handicapped, the deprived from freedom and those suffering from low income. --SPA 20:06 LOCAL TIME 17:06 GMT 0027 www.spa.gov.sa/w1290010