Pak Sahafat – Despite the claims of the Saudi authorities regarding the lifting of restrictions against women in Saudi Arabia and the silence of the international community, more than 100 women are living in difficult conditions in Al Saud prisons.
According to the International group of Pak Sahafat news agency, on November 25, the world celebrated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, when more than 100 Saudi women are accused of expressing their opinion in Al Saud prisons, and all of them are facing mental torture and sexual abuse.
According to the latest reports of the human rights organization “Sand”, the Al Saud regime has arrested 60 political activists in recent months, bringing the number of women arrested to more than 100.
The number of women arrested for expressing their opinion in Saudi Arabia is high, among the most prominent of them are “Asma Al-Sabi’i”, “Lina Al-Sharif”, “Yasmin Al-Ghafili”, “Aida Al-Ghamdi”, “Reina Abdul Aziz”, “Wahila Al-Qaysir”, ” May al-Taqq” and “Lejin Dagestani” mentioned.
The human rights organization “Sand” demanded the support of the freedom of speech of the female prisoners who are facing the most severe violence in the detention centers and pressure on the Bin Salman regime to release them and end the oppression.
The European Saudi Human Rights Organization also rejected the claim of Saudi Arabia regarding changing the treatment of women and improving their legal status and the claim of protecting freedoms and emphasized that these claims are in contradiction with the documents and facts in the field.
Social networks also share the hashtag “freedom of women victims of the Persian Gulf crisis” at the same time as the World Cup in Qatar. Among these detainees are religious preacher Sheikh Salman Al-Awda, journalist Sami Al-Thabiti and Khaled Al-Alakam, satirist Abu Muhammad Al-Nakhi, and Saudi singer Rabi Hafez.
Saudi Arabia is one of the most prominent countries that violate women’s rights in the field of social and political issues during the reign of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Despite the claims of the Saudi authorities to make structural changes in the country’s governance and to remove some of the restrictions on women, Saudi women are still in prison without being tried or charged.
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Even though the Saudi institutions do not announce the exact number of detained women, international organizations active in the field of women’s rights report the imprisonment of dozens of Saudi women in Al Saud prisons. These women, who have often commented on everyday political and social issues of the country, have been arrested and sent to prison.
The Saudi authorities have arrested some female activists and critics for publishing tweets criticizing the Al Saud family and issued long prison sentences against them. Such as the sentence of 34 years of imprisonment against Saudi female activist Salmi al-Shahab and 45 years of imprisonment against Noura al-Qahtani. It was issued for criticizing Al Saud in a tweet.
According to human rights observers, this heavy sentence, which was issued based on the so-called “fighting electronic crimes” law of Saudi Arabia, makes few people in Saudi Arabia dare to criticize the unfortunate situation of women’s rights in this country.
This is while the sentence issued against some female activists has been increased, as recently the Saudi authorities increased the prison sentence of the detained Saudi female activist Sakineh al-Dakhil from 7 years to 12 years.
According to Amnesty International, many women activists in the field of human rights face a lot of harassment in Saudi prisons, including sexual harassment, torture, preventing contact with family and defense lawyers, and misbehavior during detention.
Many human rights organizations have severely criticized the plight of Saudi women in Saudi prisons and emphasized that these prisoners are deprived of the simplest rights.
Saudi Arabia was a repressive country before the crown prince of “Mohammed bin Salman”; But after he came to power, the repression has intensified in an unprecedented way, so that anyone who criticizes the government or defends his rights is arrested and subjected to severe torture and long imprisonment.
The Al Saud regime wants to show that no activist or critic is safe and controls and silences them through spying tools. In the past, the Saudi regime oppressed unique people, but today the repression of this regime has included all classes of scholars, princes, missionaries, clerics, and even children and women, and the actions of Al-Saud have created new movements inside and outside the country against this.