extensively from saudi arabia recently what can you tell us about the wave of arrests there sara stefani not the first time of course that there was a crackdown on activists in saudi arabia the last time we have seen that play out was last september by the way just before the crown prince has announced that the driving ban is going to be lifted what makes this case quite unprecedented is the fact that these are very prominent people rouge we have interviewed in march in riyadh she campaigned for the driving ban ban to be lifted for decades since one thousand nine hundred and the very same people who actually had hopes that these reforms are actually going to be put into action and there's going to be change these people have been arrested now in the meantime four people have been released among them is also my deah but this is what she had to say before she was detained when i spoke to her in riyadh the you know one of the first things we've been asking was the driving and the right to drive and we have to remember that the