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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy
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What happened to prominent journalist #JamalKhashoggi while he was abroad, has to make you ask what happens to #Saudis who aren’t prominent inside the kingdom and away from public scrutiny. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“Talking costs you dearly now,” one Saudi academic said in August after declining to meet with a Bloomberg News reporter. #Saudi
The number of asylum-seekers from #Saudi Arabia with pending cases has more than doubled since Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman began rise to power: from 575 in 2015—the year MBS publicly began his rise to power—to 1,256 in 2017, according to the UN.
And because not enough reporters or analysts or newly-minted experts on #Saudi Arabia remember this: there are feminists and women’s rights activists jailed, some incommunicado, since May by Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman. Ask about them! Where are they? nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opi…
And remember: Five Shi’a human rights activists are on trial in #Saudi Arabia, including Israa al-Ghomgham, who would be the first female human rights activist to face capital punishment. Their next court appearance was supposed to be Oct. 28 theguardian.com/world/2018/aug…
Remember #Saudi lawyer @WaleedAbulkhair who was sentenced to 15yrs in prison & 15yr travel ban to be applied after release from jail, for calling for reforms, release of political prisoners, women's rights. His wife Samar Badawi is among jailed feminists cnn.com/2014/07/06/wor…
Remember jailed #Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, brother of Samar Badawi (a jailed feminist) and brother-in-law of Waleed Abulkhair. Raif received the first 50 out of 1000 lashes on 9 January 2015 for setting up a website focused on social and political debate. amnestyusa.org/press-releases…
Remember @azizayousef, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
Remember @Saudiwoman, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
Remember @LoujainHathloul, jailed in May as part of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman’s unprecedented crackdown on feminists and women’s rights activists
#StandwithSaudiFeminists
And remember all whose names we don’t know who are held in the jails of the #Saudi absolute monarchy.
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