A Thousand and One Nights in Jail: Saudi s Most Famous Human Rights Activist Is Released,…
A Thousand and One Nights in Jail: Saudi s Most Famous Human Rights Activist Is Released, but Is She Free Yet? Published February 11th, 2021 - 07:28 GMT
Lojain was abducted while in the UAE before she was forcibly taken to Saudi Arabia in the spring of 2018. (Twitter: LinaAlhathloul)
After 1001 days in a Saudi jail, Saudi human rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul has finally been released last night, according to her family members.
The @LoujainHathloul at home after 1001 days in prison pic.twitter.com/SIm274rAEw Lina Alhathloul لينا الهذلول (@LinaAlhathloul) February 10, 2021
The family of prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was released from prison on Wednesday, have vowed to fight for “real justice", saying she will not be truly free until her alleged torturers are held to account and the charges and travel ban against her are dropped. Ms Hathloul, 31, was released after nearly three years behind bars after a Riyadh court suspended a part of her nearly six-year sentence, most of which.
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Loujain al-Hathloul was released, but other Saudi women activists remain behind bars
MEE takes a look at other advocates still imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for pushing for women s rights in the kingdom
MEE takes a look at the women s rights activists still behind bars in Saudi Arabia (Illustration by Mohamad Elasaar/MEE) By Published date: 10 February 2021 17:09 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago
After more than 1,000 days in detention, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released on probation on Wednesday, according to her sister.
Loujain is at home !!!!!!
Hathloul was arrested in May 2018 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and sent to Saudi Arabia, where she faced trial on a loosely worded terror law often used to prosecute activists.
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Saudi Arabia criminalised domestic violence in 2013 and did not allow women to drive cars until June 2018. Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has always wanted to be viewed as a women s rights reformer and has undertaken several steps to ensure that, including glossy media campaigns and slick PR mechanism.
However, one of the latest accounts by Reem Abdellatif, a public speaker and a foreign correspondent, also shatter to pieces the image that the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia has been so trying to propagate.
Saudi Arabia s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pictured while meeting with the Tunisian President during his arrival at the presidential palace in Carthage on the eastern outskirts of the capital Tunis on November 27, 2018.FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images