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Mona Eltahawy
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The male guardianship system in #Saudi Arabia is a form of gender apartheid. It must be abolished. Until it is abolished, Saudi women will continue to escape and to seek asylum. They are escaping gender apartheid.
#EndMaleGuardianship
So central to the #Saudi regime is male guardianship that women’s rights activists who’ve long fought it have been imprisined without charge since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Demand their release. #EndMaleGuardianship
These #Saudi women’s rights activists have long fought to end the male guardianship system. They have been detained since May and tortured at the orders of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Remember them. Demand their release.
#StandWithSaudiHeroes
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Mona Eltahawy
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Same #Saudi regime that has imprisoned without charge women’s rights activists since May and tortured them, including via water boarding. Same Saudi regime whose counter extremism agency made a public service announcement conflating feminism with terrorism. It’s not about “first”
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This same “first woman ambassador” like all #Saudi women has a male guardian. It could be her father, husband, brother and even son. It’s not about “first.”
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Mona Eltahawy
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How is this summit happening in a country - #Egypt - where 15 people were executed in 3 weeks after trials denounced as incredibly unjust? How is Egypt - where no one has been held accountable for the massacre of 1.000 in 2013 - hosting a summit like this? google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…
The #EU might not care what the Sisi regime has done to #Egyptians but does it not care that that regime’s security forces murdered a European citizen, Gulio Regeini? He had been tortured so badly that his mother said she was able to identify his face only by the tip of his nose.
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Mona Eltahawy
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Judges in #Kenya have postponed a long-awaited landmark ruling to strike out colonial-era legislation and decriminalize same-sex relations.
The judgment will now be given in late May. amp.theguardian.com/global-develop… #LGBTQ 🌈
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Dr. Manuel J. Gazapo Lapayese
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HILO sobre Arabia Saudita #SaudiArabia y el polémico uso de la #app #Absher #AbsherApp para monitorizar y controlar los viajes al extranjero de las #mujeres a través del #smartphone.
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Adam Coogle
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A few thoughts on the situation of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun @rahaf84427714 - an 18-year-old Saudi woman stopped in Thailand attempting to flee to Australia from Kuwait:

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Daniel Wickham
@DanielWickham93
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Barbara Clark
@Prairiewind46
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Greg Sarafan, Esq
@GSarafan
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