Saudi Activist Who Urged Women's Driving Rights Gets Nearly 6-Year Prison Term

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Saudi Arabia's terrorism court has sentenced Loujain al-Hathloul, the activist who led the push to allow Saudi women to drive, to nearly six years in prison. Hathloul's case has drawn widespread scrutiny since her arrest in the spring of 2018.

As it punished Hathloul, the Specialized Criminal Court suspended nearly three years of her sentence — and because Hathloul has already spent well over two years in prison, she could be released in less than three months, according to her sister, Lina al-Hathloul. Discussing the verdict on Twitter, she adds that both sides of the case could appeal Monday's ruling.

In addition to the prison term, the court imposed a five-year travel ban on Hathloul, her sister said. The suspended portion of the prison term could also be reimposed if the activist is found to have committed any crime over the next three years, according to the Saudi state-linked news outlet Sabq.

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Hathloul, 31, was the most high-profile of a group of female activists who were arrested shortly before the Saudi kingdom lifted its long-standing ban on women driving. Her family says she has been tortured and not allowed to have phone calls or visits from her family.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950765197/saudi-activist-who-urged-womens-driving-rights-gets-nearly-6-year-prison-term

[Lunabell]

1. Our ally. Smh

Stay strong sisters.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. To HELL with the House of Saud

They are a pox upon humanity, although I doubt any decent regime would follow their downfall.

[Bev54]

3. Loujain al-Hathloul attended University of British Columbia in Vancouver

for 5 years so she knows freedom and how it should be. It also makes us feel she is a part of us (Canada) and feel the betrayal of this vile regime. I wish the western press would stop their fluff stories about how they are giving women more freedom, it is all a facade. They are as evil as ever, if not more under MBS.