{"id":265392,"date":"2017-06-06T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=265392"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:46:36","slug":"loujain-al-hathloul-saudi-womens-driving-activist-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/loujain-al-hathloul-saudi-womens-driving-activist-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Loujain al-Hathloul: Saudi women\u2019s driving activist arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Shame on the United Nations Organization for electing a Saudi man to lead the women’s rights defense committee. It\u2019s as ridiculous as the Nobel committee awarding Nobel Peace Prize to war criminal Obama.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A Saudi rights activist who was detained for 73 days for flouting the country’s ban on female drivers has been arrested again.<\/p>\n

Loujain al-Hathloul was picked up at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on 4 June, the human rights group Amnesty International says.<\/p>\n

It says Ms Hathloul has been denied access to a lawyer or her family.<\/p>\n

Ms Hathloul was arrested in 2014 when she tried to drive into Saudi Arabia from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that forbids women from driving.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not disclosed the reason for Ms Hathloul’s latest arrest.<\/p>\n

She is expected to be taken to Riyadh later on Tuesday, to be interrogated by prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International’s Samah Hadid called for her immediate release, saying her “continuous harassment” was “absurd and unjustifiable”.<\/p>\n

“It appears she is being targeted once again because of her peaceful work as a human rights defender speaking out for women’s rights, which are consistently trammelled in the kingdom.”<\/p>\n

While it is not technically illegal for women to drive, only men are given driving licences – and women who drive in public risk being arrested and fined by police.<\/p>\n

Ms Hathloul was arrested in December 2014, when she tried to drive into Saudi Arabia from the neighbouring United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n

In November 2015, Ms Hathloul stood for election in Saudi Arabia –\u00a0the first time the conservative kingdom had let women vote, or stand as candidates.<\/p>\n

However, her name was never added to the ballot paper.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-40171306<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Shame on the United Nations Organization for electing a Saudi man to lead the women’s rights defense committee. It\u2019s as ridiculous as the Nobel committee awarding Nobel Peace Prize to war criminal Obama.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}