Three Saudi women were granted temporary release from prison on Thursday, nearly a year after they and other women's rights activists were detained by security forces.
“This is a long overdue step as these women should never have been jailed in the first place and their release should certainly not be on a ‘temporary’ basis," said Amnesty's Middle East director of research in a press release.
In the presence of their husbands, parents and children, the women told a panel of three judges about the physical and sexual abuse they say they were subjected to by masked interrogators during their imprisonment.
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