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Human rights groups ask international community not to forget other female prisoners of conscience in Saudi jails
Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul poses at home after her release from a Saudi prison. Photograph: Family of Saudi Activist Loujain/Reuters
Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul poses at home after her release from a Saudi prison. Photograph: Family of Saudi Activist Loujain/Reuters
Thu 11 Feb 2021 09.42 EST
Saudi campaigners and human rights groups have welcomed the release of the prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul from prison, while urging the international community not to forget the other female prisoners of conscience still behind bars for their activism in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Abdulrahman al-Sadhan sounded calm the last time his family heard his voice.
From a Saudi prison, the 36-year-old human rights activist told his father he was being detained before the call cut out after just one minute.
At that point they had not heard from him since he was kidnapped from his workplace in Riyadh two years earlier.
His sister Areej al-Sadhan said underneath her brother’s apparent calm was a sense of nervousness, because Abdulrahman knew his call was being monitored.
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“We could tell that he was being careful with talking,” she told SBS News.
“And that s what is really concerning to us, because how do we make sure that he is actually ok?”