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Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women: agency
Middle East
August 21, 2019
Saudi Arabia implements end to travel restrictions for Saudi women: agency
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has begun allowing adult women to travel without permission and to exercise more control over…
Saudi Arabia easing male guardianship law: True reform or symbolic PR?
Middle East
July 23, 2019
Saudi Arabia easing male guardianship law: True reform or symbolic PR?
The Saudi government is reportedly planning this year to lift a restriction on women traveling without the consent of male…
Saudi women activists’ trials to continue after 3rd hearing
Middle East
April 4, 2019
Saudi women activists’ trials to continue after 3rd hearing
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nearly a dozen Saudi women’s rights activists, most of them imprisoned, attended their third…
Saudi Arabia cites UN job application as evidence against rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul
Middle East
March 29, 2019
Saudi Arabia cites UN job application as evidence against rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul
(CNN)–A prominent Saudi activist’s admission that she once applied for a job at the United Nations is being used as…
Saudi Arabia temporarily releases three women activists
Middle East
March 29, 2019
Saudi Arabia temporarily releases three women activists
(CNN)–Saudi Arabia temporarily released three of the 11 women activists standing trial for charges related to their human rights work,…
Saudi women activists detail torture, sexual abuse at court hearing
Middle East
March 28, 2019
Saudi women activists detail torture, sexual abuse at court hearing
Saudi women activists told a court on Wednesday they had been subjected to torture and sexual abuse during more than…
Saudi woman detained for flouting still-in-place driving ban
Society
October 9, 2017
Saudi woman detained for flouting still-in-place driving ban
A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in the capital, Riyadh, has been briefly detained for…