Loujain al-Hathloul was charged under the Saudi's broad counter-terrorism laws for undermining national security and trying to change the political system of the country, a Reuters report said. Saudi officials detained Loujain on May 15, 2018. Because, goes the consensus, the government wanted to show who was in charge. In 2016, a year after she became one of the first women to stand for municipal election in Saudi Arabia, she was among 14,000 signatories on a petition to King Salman calling for an end to the guardianship system. In October 2018, Saudi agents murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident and journalist. There is nothing a political prisoner wants more than to be remembered; there is nothing a dictatorship wants more than that the prisoner be forgotten. At this point, the case was in a regular criminal court, not the “special court” that would come later. In fact, Walid’s activism only began to in an effort to free his younger sister. High 48F. Some high-placed Americans are puzzled by the Saudi government’s insistence on keeping the activists jailed. Leader of Canadian Province Urges Biden Admin to Reconsider Keystone XL Pipeline, Apple Spent $90,000 Lobbying Lawmakers on Uyghur Forced Labor Bill, Google Threatens to Leave Australia in Dispute over Payments to News Outlets, Cruz Accuses Biden of Prioritizing Foreigners over Americans by Rejoining Paris Climate Accord, Conservative Nationalism and U.S. Foreign Policy. In November 2020, her case was transferred from regular criminal court to a special terrorism court. Moreover, activists, or would-be activists, should think twice before asking for any more rights. Loujain Al-Hathloul is presently incarcerated by her country's government as punishment for her work of advocating for the right of a woman to drive a car and against the male guardian system, in much the same way as the United States imprisoned activists for advancing civil and human rights. What did she do? On December 28, 2020, she was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, with two years and 10 months suspended. UBC grad sentenced to 6 years in Saudi prison for defying ban on women driving. According to the best reports obtainable, Saudi agents handcuffed and blindfolded him, and put him on a plane back home. Loujain Al-Hathloul, 31 ans, féministe enfermée depuis deux ans et demi en Arabie saoudite Celle qui est un symbole de la lutte pacifique des femmes de son pays pour leur émancipation a … From the U.S. Congress, there have been resolutions, in favor of the prisoners: one offered in the House by Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat; one offered in the Senate by Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican. Maybe the government would spring Loujain beforehand, as a goodwill gesture? One of the rules of the GCC says, if you have a driver’s license from one country, it is valid in another country. “We can show it to you. My strong, resilient sister blamed it on the air-conditioning and tried to assure my parents that she would be fine. This is how Mohammed bin Salman has tried to paint his female prisoners, the rights activists. Eventually, Loujain went to a university far away: the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Saudi women’s right to drive activist, Loujain al-Hathloul, is standing trial on Wednesday after spending nearly 10 months in prison on charges of supporting “hostile elements”. Visiting her in December, Loujain’s parents confronted her on the question of torture. At some point in 2018, there was a divorce between Loujain and Fahad. From the executive branch of the U.S. government, there has been little. Loujain al-Hathloul in a 2014 image made from video, driving before it was legal for women in Saudi Arabia to do so. Want to discuss? Maybe the summit would be an opportunity for the prisoners’ supporters to showcase their plights? Indeed, he was one of the very first stand-up comedians in Saudi Arabia. The timing of these arrests was curious. WATCH: Loujain al-Hathloul, a women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to six years in prison under the country's broadly-worded counterterrorism law. Testing this, Loujain tried to drive from the UAE into Saudi Arabia. From local media, Walid al-Hathloul, abroad, found out about the verdict before Loujain did. Charges against her include seeking to change the Saudi political system and harming national security. What a cruel and depraved regime, the kind of regime that pocks the world. In March 2018 Hathloul was arrested in the UAE where she was studying and forcibly flown to Riyadh where she was held under house arrest before being moved to prison in May, rights groups say. Loujain al-Hathloul in a 2014 image made from video, driving before it was legal for women in Saudi Arabia to do so. This time, she went on hunger strike for two weeks. Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, was arrested with a dozen other women’s rights campaigners in 2018, even as the Gulf kingdom lifted the ban on women driving and pledged to relax patriarchal male guardianship laws. It is hurting the government’s reputation around the world. Loujain is the fourth child in that lineup. UBC graduate facing up to 20 years in Saudi prison for women’s rights advocacy, supporters say. Loujain AlHathloul is on trial and facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for her activism. The rest of the family is in Saudi Arabia, and barred from leaving the country. Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. Some of them are in prison, as she is. He is Fahad al-Butairi, an actor, screenwriter, and stand-up comedian. There are six siblings altogether: two brothers, four sisters. Each one of them has a story to tell, each one of them merits an article — or a book — of her own. Even so, al-Hathloul’s prison sentence will end in March 2021, since the court has suspended 34 months of her sentence and has calculated the prison verdict from May 2018 onwards, when she was first detained by … Her continued imprisonment was likely to be a point of contention in relations between the kingdom and the incoming presidency of Joe Biden. Loujain al-Hathloul, who fought Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving and became one of the kingdom’s most prominent prisoners, has been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison. 24 Nov 2020 ‘Sportwashing’: Saudi … Because they can. Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five years and eight months in prison by a Saudi court. An exceptional young Saudi herself, she married another such person in 2014. These “basics” seem like faraway dreams to a great many around the world. The assumption of observers is this: Saudi authorities pressured Fahad to divorce Loujain, whom they wanted to make a national pariah and hate figure. By Rose Troup Buchanan. On March 13, she was driving on a highway when she was pulled over and, essentially, kidnapped. PEN America gave Loujain and two other female prisoners in Saudi Arabia — Eman al-Nafjan and Nouf Abdulaziz — a free-expression award. Updated 3:15 p.m. She asked them if they would keep eating all day during Ramadan. Hathloul rose to prominence in 2013 when she began publicly campaigning for women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia. Rights groups say at least three of the women, including Hathloul, were held in solitary confinement for months and subjected to abuse including electric shocks, flogging and sexual assault. Walid provides an example of her kindness and selflessness. “Loujain must be released, and as Joe Biden has said, it’s time for the rest of the world to treat Saudi Arabia as the Pariah it is until it ends these sickening abuses.” Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five and a half years in prison Wire Services/ The Telegraph. The story of Loujain al-Hathloul, political prisoner, Understanding U.S. Involvement in Yemen’s ‘Forgotten War’, America’s Elite Universities Hide Contributions from World’s Worst Human-Rights Abusers. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.. GREENSBORO, N.C. — The International Civil Rights Center & Museum has chosen a Saudi Arabian Women’s Rights activist and advocate for Human and Civil Rights as its 2021 Trail Blazer. Loujain’s trial was postponed after about a month, with no reason given. La militante des droits de l'Homme a été condamnée pour s'être mobilisée pour When Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested two years ago after speaking publicly about a woman's right to drive, her case was widely censored by the local government. Loujain was a graduate student in the UAE, studying for a master’s in sociology on the Abu Dhabi campus of the Sorbonne. Read more: Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to five years and eight months in prison on charges including ‘agitating for change’. She studied French literature. In the autumn of 2018, human-rights organizations started to report that prisoners were being tortured, with unusual ferocity, in Saudi Arabia. He got his start in this line of work while a student at the University of Texas in Austin. We’ll deliver The Capital Note to your inbox each weekday. Les diplomaties française et allemande ont demandé la libération rapide de la militante saoudienne des droits humains Loujain al-Hathloul, condamnée lundi à … Loujain is 31 years old, born in July 1989. Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly-worded law aimed at combating terrorism, according to state-linked media. She got a visit. She campaigned for human rights, and, specifically, women’s rights: the right to live independently; the right to have legal recourse in the case of domestic abuse; the right to drive a car. Loujain al-Hathloul, who was arrested just before the driving ban was lifted, was charged with undermining the kingdom in a case that supporters decried as a political persecution. No charge. Her name means “pearl,” and her brother Walid says, “That’s what she is to our family.” Their father is an engineer, educated at the University of Michigan; their mother is a retired schoolteacher. Tomorrow we will show you the videos.”. Loujain al-Hathloul, arrested in 2018, has been on hunger strike for a month against conditions of prolonged detention. Loujain al-Hathloul, who fought Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving and became one of the kingdom’s most prominent prisoners, has been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison. Nun wird sie behandelt wie eine Terroristin. Saudi rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul starts hunger strike in jail, family says The 31-year-old has been imprisoned since May 2018 for her women's rights activism As a girl, she cared a lot about people and questioned injustices around her: in particular, inequality between boys and girls, and men and women. Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday. At the U.N. Human Rights Council, 36 countries called on the Saudi government — which then belonged to that council — to release prisoners such as Loujain. Freedom of speech is not recognized by the Saudi government. For four months in 2020 — April to August — Loujain al-Hathloul was denied visits and phone calls from her family. Tearfully, she confessed. In August 2019, Hathloul’s family said she had rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody. In December 2020, the Saudi public prosecutor was cleared of allegations of abuse against Hathloul by the criminal court. In response to this, she did what political prisoners have long done, have long resorted to: She went on hunger strike, for six days. No charge. He and Loujain went to “a typical high school in Riyadh,” he says. It was transferred from the criminal court to that “special court,” for terrorists et al. Although Walid and Loujain only have one year separating them, their interests are very different. La sua colpa? Three of the siblings live abroad, and have campaigned mightily for Loujain. He forced Loujain to eat with them, even after sunrise. Loujain AlHathloul's case has been transferred to the Specialised Criminal Court as of 25 Nov 2020. Get Kevin D. Williamson’s newsletter delivered to your inbox each Tuesday. He had been in Jordan, shooting a film. È ciò che è successo a una giovane attivista per essersi ribellata alle regole saudite ed aver cercato di sostenere il cambiamento. My parents then saw that her thighs were blackened by bruises. Saudi agents put her on a private jet and transported her back to her home country. She had been trying to spare them the information. Foreign diplomats were not allowed to attend Loujain’s trial. Driving was a favor to be granted by the king and his crown prince to their subjects. Die saudische Frauenrechtlerin Loujain Al-Hathloul wurde 2018 verhaftet. Loujain AlHathloul is a Saudi Human Rights Defender and arbitrary prisoned since 15 May 2018. In 2018, she attended a public meeting in Geneva to brief the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. Who is Loujain al-Hathloul? Loujain al-Hathloul setzte einst Hoffnung in die Reformen des Kronprinzen, nun wird die junge saudische Frauenrechtlerin behandelt wie eine Terroristin. The videos never materialized — even manufactured. Quite possibly — to say it again — they want to keep the prisoners as object lessons, warning off others from dissent. 12.5k Followers, 16 Following, 32 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from لجين هذلول الهذلول (@loujainhathloul) At the relevant gala, the actor Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, posed for pictures. The pandemic would have been a nice, face-saving excuse for the regime. A weekly digest on business and economics from an NR sensibility. These included women prisoners — something relatively new, and considered at odds with Saudi ethics. Since then, she’s reportedly been violently tortured and sexually harassed. November 25 was an important day in the Loujain al-Hathloul case. Loujain Hathloul Abdullah Alhathloul (sometimes Loujain al-Hathloul) was born on July 31, 1989, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is one of the country’s most outspoken women’s rights activists. Weighing Individual ‘Value’ Against the Greater Good, The U.S. Officially Recognizes China’s Uyghur Genocide, Fauci Refutes Biden Admin Claim that Trump Left ‘No Plan’ for Vaccine Distribution. Since June 2017, the boss in Saudi Arabia has been the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Time magazine named Loujain one of the 100 most influential people of 2019. During her imprisonment, Loujain has received significant international recognition. She had obtained a driver’s license from the United Arab Emirates. When Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested two years ago after speaking publicly about a woman's right to drive, her case was widely censored by the local government. The judge suspended two years and ten months of her sentence, and gave her credit for the time she has already spent in prison. A Twitter thread about one of Saudi Arabia’s most well-known women’s rights activists has been widely shared, bringing fresh attention to her detention. The UAE is part of the Gulf Cooperation Council, as is Saudi Arabia. But the regime has not budged. She was sentenced to five years and eight months. Especially galling to the authorities, apparently, was the fact that Loujain had freely discussed her (initial) prison experience. She was detained in 2018. Loujain AlHathloul is on trial in Saudi Arabia at the Specialised Criminal (terrorism) court for her activism. She has been recognized around the globe for her firm stand on behalf of gender equality. The authorities harassed her unbearably — waking her up every two hours, for example — and she broke off her strike. For the first 10 months of her detention, she was held without charges or trial, and incommunicado with no access to her family or lawyer during the first three months. Then there are the political prisoners, such as the two we have named. Aver guidato un’auto. Sometimes Mr. Qahtani laughed at her, sometimes he threatened to rape and kill her and throw her body into the sewage system. Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, has already been in a maximum security prison for two and a half years. Leïla Slimani signe une tribune pour réclamer la libération de Loujain al-Hathloul La militante pour les droits des femmes en Arabie saoudite est … Loujain al-Hathloul has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2018 for defying a ban on women driving. Among the countries doing so were France, Germany, and Britain. Immediately, “she wanted to appeal the verdict, even though we don’t have much hope in the Saudi judicial system.”. She was always asking questions that weren’t quite safe to ask. Rose Troup Buchanan BuzzFeed News Reporter. Loujain al-Hathloul has already been in pre-trial detention and has endured several stretches of solitary confinement. Saudi activist Loujain Al-Hathloul [AFP/Getty Images] December 18, 2020 at 3:52 pm Saudi Public Prosecutor on Wednesday demanded the maximum prison sentence possible for … Loujain al-Hathloul, a women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to six years in prison under the country’s broadly-worded counterterrorism law. Today on the homepage, I have a piece called “A Saudi Woman: The story of Loujain al-Hathloul, political prisoner.” Here on the Corner, I’d like to make a point about torture. Loujain Alhathloul has been held in a maximum security prison since 2018, jailed after capturing the world's attention with her fight for basic equal human rights for women in Saudi Arabia. “We have some of them with videos,” he said. Greensboro, NC (27407) Today Sunny to partly cloudy. In the end, the summit was merely virtual — an online event — attracting little attention. Saudi authorities have denied torture allegations. Loujain al-Hathloul has been held since 2018 after being arrested along with several other women’s rights activists. In this same period, Fahad, too, was kidnapped. Neither were foreign journalists. We are speaking of Loujain al-Hathloul, one of the most prominent political prisoners in Saudi Arabia. 28 Dec 2020 UK report calls out Saudi Arabia over women’s rights abuses Yet the world can be forgiven if it does not quite see him that way. Why crack down on the activists at this juncture? She had no “need” to do it, because she was living a perfectly fine life as it was. Possibly, Loujain al-Hathloul will be released in a matter of months. What Do We Really Know about Saudi Arabia? 65 Likes, 17 Comments - Loujain Alhathloul (@loujainhhathloull) on Instagram: “هذا حسابي الوحيد وليس لي اي حساب اخر ” In December 2014, Loujain did something daring. Cinco años y ocho meses de cárcel fue la condena que recibió la destacada activista defensora de los derechos humanos saudí Loujain Alhathloul, detenida en mayo de 2018. The same day, they arrested other women’s-rights activists, including Eman al-Nafjan, Aisha al-Mana, and Aziza al-Yousef. Later, the family learned that this was a dark, dark time for her in prison. Get our conservative analysis delivered right to you. Here are some details about al-Hathloul, who has been detained since 2018. Fahad and Loujain became widely known in Saudi Arabia, especially inspiring the young. Many other Saudis feel just as she does. And now, her family, who … The family and supporters are calling for Loujain's immediate and unconditional release and inviting the public to … Hathloul went on hunger strike in October — her second in 2020 — to protest against the conditions of her detention. They did it in Istanbul. … Profile von Personen mit dem Namen Loujain Al Hathloul anzeigen. They held up signs with the prisoners’ names on them. She was judged guilty in a notorious “special court,” ostensibly reserved for terrorists and other dangerous characters. Sie ist eine der bekanntesten Frauenrechtlerinnen Saudi-Arabiens und hat sich unter anderem für das Recht auf Autofahren eingesetzt - mit Erfolg. He was also lashed. But she felt compelled to do it. The government was keen to portray Loujain as a threat to national security. What harm would it have done to let the prisoners go when COVID-19 struck? Along with six of his men, she said, Mr. Qahtani tortured her all night during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting. «Loujain al-Hathloul hat bereits mehr als 900 Tage in Haft verbracht, während derer sie Folter, sexuelle Belästigung und andere Formen der Misshandlung ertragen musste, in Einzelhaft gehalten wurde und ihr der Zugang zu ihrer Familie verwehrt wurde. On the 15th of May — two months after Loujain’s (most recent) release — something shocking happened: They arrested her again, coming to her home to seize her. El Tribunal de Sanciones de Riad condenó a la activista por “servir a una agenda externa al reino usando Internet (…) con el fin de perjudicar el sistema público, además […] NR Daily is delivered right to you every afternoon. A prominent Saudi female activist, who campaigned for women’s right to drive, has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. When they released her, they put her on a travel ban and gave her a warning: Stay absolutely quiet. 1.3m Followers, 988 Following, 2,071 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Tara Milk Tea (@taramilktea) Zhang Zhan et Loujain al-Hathloul ne se connaissent pas, et pourtant elles ont beaucoup de choses en commun. “Loujain al-Hathloul has already spent more than 900 days in detention, during which she endured torture, sexual harassment and other forms of ill-treatment, was held in solitary confinement and denied access to her family. Loujain al-Hathloul, who was arrested just before the driving ban was lifted, was charged with undermining the kingdom in a case that supporters decried as a political persecution. She was among at least a dozen other women’s rights activists arrested, and Saudi media tarred them as traitors. loujain alhathloul videos and latest news articles; GlobalNews.ca your source for the latest news on loujain alhathloul . Loujain will appeal the sentence and ask for another investigation regarding torture”. She was arrested for the first time in 2014 while attempting to drive across the border from the United Arab Emirates — where she had a valid driver’s license — to Saudi Arabia. Posted on January 3, 2019, at 1:03 p.m. According to her family, and others who know her, she has a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense of patriotism. Loujain al-Hathloul (Courtesy of the family of Loujain al-Hathloul) The story of Loujain al-Hathloul, political prisoner T here could hardly be a stronger person, says her brother Walid. Interviewed by reporters from Bloomberg in October 2018, he said that the arrests of the activists had nothing to do with their activism or advocacy. In March 2019, ten months after her arrest, Loujain al-Hathloul was granted a trial — though the procedure was not worthy of the name. Yet “she cried when the verdict was read, because she was innocent, and she was being labeled a terrorist.” This was on December 28. Loujain al-Hathloul, una activista por los derechos de las mujeres de Arabia Saudí recibió una condenada de casi seis años de prisión. Get Jim Geraghty’s tour of the political news of the day. She spent 73 days in a women’s detention facility, an experience she later said helped shape her campaigning against the kingdom’s male guardianship system. Loujain Alhathloul, a Saudi women's rights activist who studied in Canada, has been imprisoned for the past two years. In January 2019, Loujain’s sister Alia wrote the following, in an article published in the New York Times: My parents saw that she was shaking uncontrollably, unable to hold her grip, to walk or sit normally. She said she had been held in solitary confinement, beaten, waterboarded, given electric shocks, sexually harassed, and threatened with rape and murder. Saudi activist al-Hathloul appears in court, UN calls for release. She was detained for two nights, released on the 15th. Loujain Alhathloul (@loujainhhathloull) • Instagram photos and videos “The moment I get out,” she said to Walid, “I’m going to find you a woman to marry.” Walid answered, “Loujain, this is no time to talk about romance. Loujain al-Hathloul si trova in carcere da 900 giorni. UBC grad, women’s rights activist jailed in Saudi Arabia, Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison, WATCH: Loujain al-Hathloul, a women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia, has been sentenced to six years in prison under the country's broadly-worded counterterrorism law. Instead, they were spies, in cahoots with foreign intelligence services. Loujain’s parents were not allowed to visit her until August, three months after her arrest. “It does not surprise me that Loujain became an activist,” says Walid. 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