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Mona Eltahawy
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Unprecedented #Saudi crackdown vs feminism jailed 17 women’s rights activists since May. Several were tortured. One was waterboarded: torture usually associated w/terrorism. For regime, feminism=terrorism. Now they’ve been charged twitter.com/monaeltahawy/s…
I made that video soon after Rahaf Mohamed escaped #Saudi Arabia in January. I stand by everything I said.
De facto leader of #Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman:
- May 2018 detained & ordered torture of women’s rights activists
- June 2018 lifted the driving ban
- Feb 2019 appointed first woman as Saudi ambassador
- March 2019 charged detained women’s rights activists.
I wrote this soon after the unprecedented crackdown against #Saudi women’s rights activists began last year. My main point: feminism terrifies authoritarians like Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman and the Saudi regime google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
And every day since reports of the torture of these imprisoned #Saudi women’s rights activists I have posted this thread: These #Saudi women’s rights activists have long fought to end the male guardianship system. Remember them. Demand their release.
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