The Dubai Sports Council (DSC) and Dubai Police announced the launch of the General League for Inmates, the first of its kind in the region dedicated to inmates in penal and correctional institutions, which will be held from February 7 to May 31.

14 football team will be competing according to the six-six league system. The initative aims to enhance physical exercise inside penal institutions and detention centres.

This came during the press conference held at the headquarters of the Dubai Sports Council, in which Nasser Aman Al Rahma, Assistant Secretary-General of the Dubai Sports Council, Brigadier Marwan Julfar, Director of the General Department of Punitive and Correctional Establishments at Dubai Police, and Salem Al Karbi, Chairman of the event organising committee, spoke in the presence of Brigadier Salah Juma Nasser Bu Osaiba.