{"id":19650,"date":"2020-10-28T04:20:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T04:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=19650"},"modified":"2020-10-28T04:21:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T04:21:22","slug":"female-saudi-activist-on-hunger-strike-to-protest-detention-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/female-saudi-activist-on-hunger-strike-to-protest-detention-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Saudi activist on hunger strike to protest detention conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prominent female Saudi activist, who has been jailed in the kingdom since 2018, launches an indefinite hunger strike in protest at her detention conditions, especially a ban on her receiving regular calls and visits from her family.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loujain al-Hathloul\u2019s sister told Reuters\u00a0on Tuesday that she had started her campaign a day earlier.<\/p>\n

She \u201ctold [our parents] she is exhausted of being mistreated and deprived from hearing her family’s voices,” Lina al-Hathloul cited her as saying.<\/p>\n

Hathoul last went on a hunger strike for six days in August after being allowed to take no more than one family phone call and two visits throughout six months.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old graduate of University of British Columbia in Canada is being held at the capital Riyadh’s al-Hair prison. She has been one of the staunchest supporters of removal of the kingdom\u2019s ban on females\u2019 driving and its high-handed male guardianship laws.<\/p>\n

She was arrested that year alongside at least a dozen other women activists surprisingly after the kingdom\u2019s ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was reported to have canceled the ban and relaxed the guardianship system.<\/p>\n

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Amnesty International demands Saudi officials release female activists<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Amnesty International calls on Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately release jailed women\u2019s rights activists.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Al-Hathoul had first been detained in 2014 and held for more than 70 days in custody after attempting to drive from the neighboring United Arab Emirates to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

According to her family and rights groups, Loujain and two other of the female activists faced solitary confinement as well as sexual harassment and torture during interrogation.<\/p>\n

Saudi officials have denied torture allegations and said the arrests were made on suspicion of \u201charming Saudi interests and offering support to hostile elements abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bin Salman has been trying to project himself as the champion of reformation in the kingdom. His 2017-present tenure as the country\u2019s heir to the throne has, however, witnessed sweeping arrest campaigns, including against activists, dissidents, and clerics.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the crown prince\u2019s incumbency witnessed its yet most gruesome Saudi-linked atrocity that featured assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

Turkish officials say Khashoggi\u2019s body was dismembered upon his assassination and his remains are yet to be found. In the aftermath of the killing, a CIA report said that the Saudi crown prince had ordered the assassination of the journalist, who was an outspoken critic of bin Salman.<\/p>\n

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A prominent female Saudi activist, who has been jailed in the kingdom since 2018, launches an indefinite hunger strike in protest at her detention conditions, especially a ban on her receiving regular calls and visits from her family. Loujain al-Hathloul\u2019s sister told Reuters\u00a0on Tuesday that she had started her campaign a day earlier. She \u201ctold …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1478,1483,1482,1480,1481],"class_list":["post-19650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-islam_is_our_symbol","tag-no_to_trump_deal","tag-purposeful_lectures","tag-stay_at_home_to_be_safe","tag-the_zionist_mice-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19653,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions\/19653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}