Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...063636258.html
Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week
Loujain al-Hathloul is among a dozen women's rights activists jailed since last year amid allegations of torture.
16 hours ago
Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week
Loujain al-Hathloul is among a dozen women's rights activists jailed since last year amid allegations of torture.
16 hours ago
The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women's rights activists jailed since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family has said.
Dozens of other activists, intellectuals and clerics have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out opposition to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has consolidated power, including through a sweeping anti-corruption campaign.
"My sister @LoujainHathloul will be having her first trial session next Wednesday at 8am at the specialised court in Riyadh. This is the court [that] deals with terrorism cases," her brother Walid wrote on Sunday on Twitter.
He said she was not allowed to have a lawyer and had not been provided with a list of indictments.
The public prosecutor said last June that five men and four women had been arrested and held on suspicion of harming the country's interests and offering support to hostile elements abroad. Saudi media widely denounced them as traitors.
It was unclear if the other detainees will also stand trial this week.
Jailed women's rights activists to face trial in Saudi Arabia (1:51)
Electric shocks, flogging
Activists claim some detainees, including 29-year-old Hathloul, were held in solitary confinement and subjected to mistreatment and torture, including electric shocks, flogging, and sexual assault. Saudi officials have denied those allegations as "false"...
Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week
Loujain al-Hathloul is among a dozen women's rights activists jailed since last year amid allegations of torture.
16 hours ago
Trial of prominent Saudi woman activist to start this week
Loujain al-Hathloul is among a dozen women's rights activists jailed since last year amid allegations of torture.
16 hours ago
The trial of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of nearly a dozen prominent Saudi Arabian women's rights activists jailed since last year, will begin on Wednesday, her family has said.
Dozens of other activists, intellectuals and clerics have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out opposition to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has consolidated power, including through a sweeping anti-corruption campaign.
"My sister @LoujainHathloul will be having her first trial session next Wednesday at 8am at the specialised court in Riyadh. This is the court [that] deals with terrorism cases," her brother Walid wrote on Sunday on Twitter.
He said she was not allowed to have a lawyer and had not been provided with a list of indictments.
The public prosecutor said last June that five men and four women had been arrested and held on suspicion of harming the country's interests and offering support to hostile elements abroad. Saudi media widely denounced them as traitors.
It was unclear if the other detainees will also stand trial this week.
Jailed women's rights activists to face trial in Saudi Arabia (1:51)
Electric shocks, flogging
Activists claim some detainees, including 29-year-old Hathloul, were held in solitary confinement and subjected to mistreatment and torture, including electric shocks, flogging, and sexual assault. Saudi officials have denied those allegations as "false"...
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