Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul
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A prominent Saudi Arabian activist who campaigned for the right to drive was sentenced to nearly six years in jail today, despite international criticism of her trial and claims she had been tortured.
Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, was arrested with a dozen other women’s rights campaigners in 2018, even as the Gulf kingdom lifted the ban on women driving and pledged to relax patriarchal male guardianship laws.
A judge in a Saudi terrorism court in Riyadh on Monday sentenced her to five years and eight months on charges related to her activism, including seeking to change the Saudi political system conspiring with foreign governments and harming national security.
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Leading Saudi women’s rights activist’s family condemns potential 20-year jail sentence Maya Oppenheim © Provided by The Independent
The family of a leading Saudi women’s rights activist have condemned the state prosecutor office’s decision to seek the maximum possible jail sentence of 20 years for the imprisoned campaigner.
Loujain al-Hathloul, who successfully campaigned to win Saudi women the right to drive, has allegedly been tortured in prison and recently launched a hunger strike over her jail conditions.
Lina al-Hathloul, her younger sister, told
The Independent during Thursday’s court hearing Loujain and their father were briefed on a secret report on her torture despite the public prosecution having denied torture charges.
Leading Saudi women’s rights activist’s family condemns potential 20-year jail sentence Maya Oppenheim © Provided by The Independent
The family of a leading Saudi women’s rights activist have condemned the state prosecutor office’s decision to seek the maximum possible jail sentence of 20 years for the imprisoned campaigner.
Loujain al-Hathloul, who successfully campaigned to win Saudi women the right to drive, has allegedly been tortured in prison and recently launched a hunger strike over her jail conditions.
Lina al-Hathloul, her younger sister, told
The Independent during Thursday’s court hearing Loujain and their father were briefed on a secret report on her torture despite the public prosecution having denied torture charges.