Saudi Arabia Arrests Two More Women’s Rights Activists in ‘Crackdown’

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Saudia Arabia has just arrested a couple more women for protesting and campaigning for equal rights.

Sharia law, anyone?

But this is what the feminists of the West say is the great religion of Islam — the most misogynistic faith in the world.

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Saudi Arabia is poised to let women drive — finally — but not before arresting several for campaigning for equal rights.

The arrests of these two women come on the heels of a government crackdown that led to the detention of 14 other females.

The Daily Mail has more:

Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women’s rights activists, in an ‘unrelenting crackdown’ just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

The New York-based watchdog said activists Nouf Abdelaziz and Mayaa al-Zahrani were arrested earlier this month following the detention of at least 14 other women’s rights campaigners and supporters.

‘Saudi authorities have arrested two more women’s rights activists… in what appears to be an unrelenting crackdown on the women’s rights movement,’ HRW said.

‘Saudi activists have reported that the authorities have placed travel bans on numerous others since May 15.’

Saudi officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The government said earlier this month that it detained 17 people for ‘undermining’ the kingdom’s security, without disclosing their names.

Rights groups have identified many of the detainees as campaigners for women’s right to drive and an end to the conservative Islamic kingdom’s male guardianship system.

Activist and writer Abdelaziz was arrested after she publicly expressed solidarity with the detained activists, and her friend Zahrani was apprehended days later, HRW said, adding that both women are being held incommunicado.

Zahrani’s arrest came after she posted a letter Abdelaziz asked her to make public in case of her arrest, the watchdog said.

‘The Saudi government appears determined to leave its citizens without any space to show even rhetorical support for activists jailed in this unforgiving crackdown on dissent,’ said HRW’s Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson.

‘Nouf Abdelaziz and Mayaa al-Zahrani’s only ‘crime’ seems to be expressing solidarity with their fellow imprisoned activists.’

Authorities have said that eight of the 17 detainees had been provisionally released until their investigation is completed.

Nine suspects, including four women, remain in custody after they ‘confessed’ to a slew of charges such as suspicious contact with ‘hostile’ organisations and recruiting people in sensitive government positions, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

Previous reports in state-backed media branded some of the detainees traitors and ‘agents of embassies’.

Campaigners have dismissed the reports as a ‘smear’ campaign and the crackdown has sparked a torrent of international criticism.

Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed drive, is set to lift its decades-long ban on female drivers on June 24.

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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago

They are following their perfect man – Moham-mad. And if you dare expose truth about him they will keel you !

just like the jihadis in Indianapolis are doing http://bit.ly/2rVCN7E

End PC
End PC
5 years ago

Campaigning for women’s rights under Islamic dominance is a form of apostasy.

Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after you had believed. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others among you because they were Mujrimun (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals, etc.). Qur’an 9:66.

The evil genius of Islam’s Qur’an protects its tyrannical dominance thoroughly.

Scott
Scott
5 years ago

hahahaha fantastic, these women need their genitals removed immediately along with anyone who supports them. the only thing they are good for is a lifetime of rape and slavery!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

Actually, they’ll pay BIG money to be turned into a Hampshire Boar’s pen.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

It seems that Saudi Arabia truly is no different from ancient Arabia.

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago

It’s a double-edged sword, on the one hand if they don’t protest their lives won’t get any better. If they do protest, they might get some benefits but risk going to prison, get raped, tortured and killed by the fascist totalitarian Islamic regime. Also the progress they make is very little taking decades and then some fanatic comes along and can reverse all those gains.

When you are in enemy territory or a concentration camp, with no hope of escape then suicide is the best option. If the West won’t intervene to eradicate Islam then it’d be better for Muslim women to end their lives. This way it will also end Islam as Muslim men won’t be able to reproduce.

If I was a poor girl in one of these countries, rather than be forced into a life of slavery being married to a muslim man and produce more girls who will suffer or boys will become rapists/terrorists, I’d look for a way out…either by escaping the country or as mentioned suicide.

Sadly most people in the West are oblivious to the horrendous suffering going on in Islamic countries esp for women and young girls. Perhaps if there were some pressure from western leaders, then liberalization and women’s rights could be introduced. But I think without war and eliminating the radicals, the chances of giving them freedom is low.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Rick Reynolds

Why commit suicide? Why not die killing their muslum man masters?

Exuperancia Pérez
Exuperancia Pérez
5 years ago
Reply to  Rick Reynolds

the new Saudi Arabian leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pledged to modernize the country.
There is now a strip-tease joint in Riyad, the exotic dancers show full-face nudity!
But seriously; the number of public executions has soared since this “modernizer” rulesthe country…

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I wonder if Soddy Barbaria is still executing men and women for the “crimes” of sorcery and witchcraft?

El Kabong
El Kabong
5 years ago

The taqiyya aimed at western stooges with their decision to let women drive is bogus, and they know it, for it’s up to their husbands or next closest male handler if they can or not.

MitchHill
MitchHill
5 years ago

Maybe some of these novice drivers will take it out on their fellow mudslime countrymen, then these women can truly be considered an “activist”. Most physicists would agree.

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5 years ago


But the Saudi owned MSM just ran stories of how they are finally allowing women to drive ?!!!

Such freedom ?!
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IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

LOL, yes just like the rest of our “allies” in the muslum world — except for the beheadings.

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