Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested on May 15, 2018, along with nine other Saudi activists fighting for women’s rights in the kingdom.
Supporters of a University of B.C. graduate being held in a Saudi Arabia prison for her human-rights activism hold faint hope she will be released after one year.
Human-rights organizations have said they have credible evidence that some of the detainees were tortured, including al-Hathloul. But the Saudi government has said this is untrue and that the detainees were granted all their rights. “We’re kind of crossing our fingers that we don’t have to do that event,” she said. “Hopefully she’ll be released before that.”“Our fear is that they’re still being tortured and assaulted in the prisons,” she said. “Their lives are in danger at this point, so we really just want them to be released, even if they’re going to go to trial after the fact.”
But the Saudi judicial process has been opaque, so Amnesty International awaits their next trial dates and is pushing for international governments and media to view those trials, Hansen said. “No other state was willing to stick their neck out in that way. What we’re seeing now is a growing number of countries who are in different ways — some publicly, some privately — trying to engage Saudi authorities.”
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