Thread by @monaeltahawy, #Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul has begun another hunger strike to [...]

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#Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Alhathloul has begun another hunger strike to demand more contact with family.

Loujain has been jailed since May 2018 and has been tortured and threatened with rape.

For being a feminist. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hunger-strike-saudi-activist-ubc-6-loujain-alhathloul-1.5780073

Saudi activist has begun another hunger strike to demand more contact with family, sister says |...

Loujain Alhathloul, 31, was arrested on May 15, 2018 in a crackdown on women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia. She's jailed in a maximum security prison and has only been able to see her parents in...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hunger-strike-saudi-activist-ubc-6-loujain-alhathloul-1.5780073

“In prison, my sister has been subjected to all forms of torture and degradation, including sexual abuse. I fear for her safety, and for her life, every day, @LinaAlhathloul https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/23/loujain-alhathloul-sister-saudi-arabia-women/ #FreeLoujain

Opinion | My sister sits in a Saudi prison cell as Riyadh hosts a G-20 women’s conference

Neither women nor world leaders should be complicit in this fiction.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/23/loujain-alhathloul-sister-saudi-arabia-women/

“Though Saudi Arabia was celebrated for lifting its ban on women driving in 2018, at least 11 of the activists instrumental in advancing that right were imprisoned.” #FreeLoujain

“At this time of global outcry for gender equality, world leaders must not enable Saudi Arabia’s transparent attempts to use its wealth to camouflage its severe state-sponsored human rights abuses against women.” #FreeLoujain

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