KATHMANDU, Oct 11: On Wednesday, women's rights activists held a protest at Maitighar in Kathmandu, demanding the reversal of the presidential pardon to and re-imprisonment of Yograj Dhakal aka Regal. They also held a peaceful vigil and protest rally.
In 2019, Samira al-Houri revealed the widespread sexual abuses of female prisoners in Yemen by the Houthis. Now it emerges she has been imprisoned by Saudi Arabia since April of last year, with her whereabouts and alleged crimes unknown.
An Icelandic activist has been temporarily banned from Facebook after she reposted another user’s death threat. Hildur Lilliendahl Viggósdóttir, among Iceland’s most prominent women’s rights activists, works in Reykjavik city hall as a civil servant.