If Mohammad Bin Salman is so keen on women's rights, why are women's rights activists in prison? And where is our backlash?
In a bid to normalize society and attract foreign investment, the authoritiesToo many negative stories about daughters doing runners while on holiday with their families.Both long overdue but laudable, nevertheless, you might say.
But instead all around him is a constant drip of negative publicity over the murder of the Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi war in Yemen and stories of women who flee the country being hunted down using the IMEI numbers on their cellphones. If things at home do get unbearable women are allowed to flee into prison-like shelters, but when the time comes to re-enter society they have to get permission from you-know-who about where they can go next, so they are back to square one.
The response when the Canadian foreign minister called for the still-jailed human rights activist Sama Badawi to be freed was extreme; diplomats expelled, trade and investment withdrawn, flights cancelled and foreign students relocated.Another of the five, Nouf Abdulaziz, wrote a letter to be published in the event of her arrest, in which she described herself as"a writer, a reading addict since I was six-years old...a quiet girl except for the questions that storm my mind.
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