Saudi Arabia temporarily releases 3 women arrested in crackdown on activists

By Kareem Fahim Kareem Fahim Istanbul bureau chief covering the Middle East Email Bio Follow March 28 at 2:15 PM ISTANBUL — Saudi Arabia on Thursday provisionally released three women who are standing trial on charges largely related to their human rights activism, the state news agency reported.

Yousef and Nafjan are among 11 women on trial in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on charges that include communicating with foreign journalists and overseas human rights groups. The third woman released Thursday was Rokaya al-Mohareb, a professor and conservative Muslim activist. Her inclusion in the trial had puzzled some Saudi feminists who said Mohareb was not active in the women’s rights movement.

After the arrests, Saudi officials accused the women of grave crimes, including colluding with foreign governments hostile to Saudi Arabia. Government-friendly news outlets labeled the women “traitors.” Prosecutors “accuse the women of sharing information about women’s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists based in Saudi Arabia, diplomats, and international human rights organizations,” the group said, adding that such contacts had been deemed “a criminal offense.”The decision to release some of the women came a day after the defendants appeared in a court in Riyadh during a second hearing in their case and petitioned for their temporary release.

Yea, maybe turn down any invitations to.the Saudi consulate ladies rememberjamal

The number of female prisoners in Saudi Arabia is 6 women. How many women are in US prisons ?

On US intelligence that wants to launch their customers in Saudi Arabia pressuring the US government to release thousands of American women from US jails

How badly were they tortured

I am still dumbfounded that humanitarian foundations and funds in the United States still accept 10's of millions $$$ in donations from these governments

What does temporarily mean?

watch out for bone saws ladies

Thank God they were not secretly killed

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