‘New kind of repression’: Saudi Arabia espouses women’s rights, ‘imprisons’ anyone who seeks change

‘New kind of repression’: Saudi Arabia espouses women’s rights, ‘imprisons’ anyone who seeks change

As the ultraconservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia promotes a brand new willingness to espouse extra liberal social insurance policies, FRANCE 24 is joined by Lina Al-Hathloul, Head of Advocacy at ALQST for Human Rights, following the arrest of her sister, Loujain al-Hathloul, an activist and in style health teacher extensively adopted on social media. Amid a widespread crackdown on dissent throughout the dominion, she is being charged with revolt, defaming the dominion, and taking over the justice system. Ms. Lina Al-Hathloul dismisses the dominion’s “PR campaign that Saudi Arabia’s undertaking to flirt with the West to have tourists visit the country.” She asserts that the dominion stays “a dictatorship and a police state” the place nothing has improved for the inhabitants of 36 million, au contraire: “It has even gotten worse with the unprecedented prison sentences” and executions, even of minors.

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