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#Saudi Women’s Rights Activists to Appear in Court.

After nearly a year of brutal treatment and a sham legal process, defendants scheduled to appear in #Riyadh court Wednesday h/t @PENamerica pen.org/press-release/…
If women’s rights activists Loujain Al-Hathloul appears court, she may have her first chance to respond to charges originally filed against her in 2019. Loujain was originally charged on trumped-up cybercrime charges for her work advocating for women's rights in #Saudi Arabia.
#Saudi feminist Loujain Al-Hathloul has been in solitary confinement for more than 9 months. The #Saudi regime detained her in 2018 for her fight to end the ban on women driving & male guardianship.

We remember you, Loujain
I wrote this soon after #Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman carried out an unprecedented crackdown against feminists when he arrested Loujain and 17 other women’s rights activists in 2018 google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
I’ve collected examples of my opinion columns on women’s rights and gender apartheid in #Saudi Arabia. 16 years of them. And a chapter in my book: All that I’ve written has been in the name of love and solidarity with sisters in #Saudi Arabia.
The map of shame: @AFP graphic on the biggest suppliers of arms to #Saudi Arabia, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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#Iraqi cleric & politician Moqtada Sadr has always been a misogynist shit. In 2005, a TV producer told me that when he asked Sadr “what’s the worst thing the US has done?”, rather than say “Invade and destroy my country,” he said “Let a woman lead prayer.” 1/
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Mona Eltahawy
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In your fucking dreams. “Trad wives” are white supremacist fascist shits. Just like the men they want to “serve dinner to at 6:30pm.” Fuck them.
I mentioned “trad wives” in this essay from 2019 google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
“The trad-wife subculture, Kelly says, blames the objectification of women and sexual violence on “modernity” and “offers chastity, marriage and motherhood as an escape.”” google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
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Where is Mostafa al-Naggar? Today marks 500 days since the former opposition lawmaker was last seen. He is one of many dissidents forcibly disappeared by the #Egyptian regime.
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#SamarBadawi, a #Saudi activist who was arrested several times. She is behind bars since July 2018, during the crackdown on female activists who were calling for women’s right to drive & to end the male guardianship system. Samar faced various violations & ill-treatment.
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Yesterday (March 27) around a dozen Saudi women's rights activists who had been arrested last year finally had their day in court. While in detention, they have been tortured psychologically and physically, and subjected to sexual abuse.
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Four days into the Saudi-Canada crisis and here's a longish update on what the Saudi authorities have done, and what Saudi media is saying:
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Since last night:
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#Saudi Arabia says #Canada's statement on the arrest of activists in the Kingdom is an unacceptable interference in its internal affairs, expels the Canadian ambassador and freezes all future trade. bbc.in/2vs6crl
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