{"id":4159,"date":"2021-02-09T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2021-02-09T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:58:20","slug":"jailed-saudi-activist-loujain-al-hathloul-set-to-be-released-sister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/02\/09\/jailed-saudi-activist-loujain-al-hathloul-set-to-be-released-sister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul set to be released, sister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-field-main-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_page\/public\/images-story\/Loujain%20al-Hathloul_AFP%20Photo%3AFacebook.jpg?itok=PIvVxLK8\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1049\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"region region-content\">\n<div class=\"scrollmagic-pin-spacer\" data-scrollmagic-pin-spacer=\"\">\n<section id=\"block-meesocialshare\" class=\"block block-mee-social-share block-mee-social-share-block clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mee-social-share-block\">\n<div id=\"st-1\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons st-center  st-inline-share-buttons st-animated\">\n<div class=\"st-total \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"st-btn st-first\" data-network=\"facebook\">After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi women&#8217;s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul is expected to be released on Thursday, her sister revealed in a tweet\u00a0on Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"story full article-type clearfix\" role=\"article\" data-history-node-id=\"200041\">\n<div class=\"field field-body clearfix\">\n<p>A Saudi court sentenced Hathloul to close to six years in prison late in 2020 on charges of contacting foreign organisations stemming from her human rights work. With time served and the court suspending part of the jail sentence, she was set for release in March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I was looking at the weekly work and looking at the agenda. Out of excitement, I cancelled all of my meetings on Thursday, 11 February and took the day off,&#8221; Alia wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the judge&#8217;s order, Loujain\u00a0will be released this Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her early release would come weeks into the administration of US President Joe Biden, who has vowed to &#8220;reassess&#8221; relations with Riyadh and prioritise human rights in its dealings with the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan last week, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken stressed &#8220;several key priorities of the new administration including elevating human rights issues and ending the war in Yemen&#8221;, according to a statement by the State Department.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4161\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jailed-Saudi-activist-Loujain-al-Hathloul-expected-to-be-released-rapid-news-rapidnews-dailyrapidnews-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>1,000 days<\/h3>\n<p>Hathloul, a women&#8217;s rights defender, had been engaged in public campaigns to allow women to drive.<\/p>\n<p>Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom lifted the driving ban on women but arrested Hathloul and others who lobbied for that right.<\/p>\n<p>Hathloul was first kidnapped in 2018 in the United Arab Emirates, where she lived, and flown into Saudi Arabia against her will, where she faced a trial based on a loosely worded terror law often used to prosecute activists.<\/p>\n<p>She quickly became an international icon symbolising the crackdown on individual and political freedoms in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Hathloul and fellow detained feminist activists Nouf Abdulaziz and Eman al-Nafjan received the PEN\/Barbey Freedom to Write\u00a0Award\u00a0that is given to prominent advocates of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>According to rights groups and\u00a0family members, Hathloul faced sexual harassment and was tortured with the direct involvement of Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>Monday marked 1,000 days for Hathloul in jail. Human rights groups and women&#8217;s rights activists had paid tribute for the jailed activist throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today marks the 1,000th day that Saudi writer-activist Loujain Al-Hathloul has spent in prison for her work speaking up for women&#8217;s rights,&#8221;\u00a0Pen America\u00a0said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She now serves a nearly six-year prison sentence. We must continue calls to #FreeLoujain unconditionally and defend the #FreedomToWrite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jailed Saudi women\u2019s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to be released<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After more than 1,000 days in detention where she endured torture and hunger strikes, Saudi women&#039;s rights activist 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