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Last Updated: Friday, February 12, 2021 14:26
Loujain al-Hathloul, whose fight for human rights–especially women’s rights–touched hearts around the world, appears to have emerged triumphant–for now– from a Saudi prison after a long battle with authorities who kept her behind bars but never managed to break her spirit.
After nearly three years in the kingdom’s Ha’er Prison, where she told her family she had been held in solitary confinement and subjected to electrocution, flogging and sexual assault, al-Hathloul, a 31-year-old graduate of the University of British Columbia, was released on parole by Saudi authorities on Wednesday.
Her sister Lina tweeted the news.
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