Article 14 of the Saudi Prisons and Detention Law

This article regulates where a female prisoner or detainee gives birth:

• Transfer to the hospital: a pregnant female prisoner or detainee is transferred to the hospital as delivery approaches.
• Staying in the hospital: she stays there until two things have both happened: she has delivered, and the doctor has permitted her to leave.

This means that birth does not take place inside the prison or detention facility, and that return from the hospital does not happen merely because she has given birth; leaving depends on the doctor's permission. The wording of the text ("is transferred" and "stays") indicates that this is a mandatory procedure.

The article does not specify when delivery counts as "approaching", nor which hospital she is transferred to; these are details the text does not mention.

This article is linked to those before and after it:

• Article (13) establishes for a pregnant female prisoner or detainee special, good treatment in food and work from the appearance of pregnancy symptoms until forty days have passed after delivery.
• Article (15) allows a child to stay with his imprisoned or detained mother until he reaches two years of age, after which he is handed to his father or to the person entitled to his custody under Sharia after the mother.