Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two, is a researcher at Leeds University in Britain. [Courtesy] A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student to 34 years in prison for spreading "rumors" and ...
On 9 August, the Specialized Criminal Court in the Saudi capital, Riyadh sentenced, after a grossly unfair trial, Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi activist and academic from Saudi Arabia’s Shi’a minority to ...
The news comes shortly after another Saudi woman, Salma al-Shehab, was sentenced to 34 years in prison, a term denounced at the time as the longest ever sentence given to a women's rights defender ...
Saudi Arabia has sentenced 29-year-old fitness instructor Manahel al-Otaibi to 11 years in jail because of her choice of ...
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Saudi Arabia confirmed in a letter to the United Nations that a female fitness instructor who was popular online received an 11-year prison sentence but did not specify any of her alleged ...
Saudi Arabia secretly sentenced a 29-year-old women’s rights activist to 11 years in prison for “her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights”. Arrested in November 2022 for her ...
Saudi Arabia has sentenced a feminist activist to 11 years in prison after she criticised laws in the kingdom, rights groups ...
Saudi Arabia has reportedly launched a crackdown on citizens who express views critical of Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza ...
In the past two years the Saudi judiciary has 'convicted and handed down lengthy prison terms on dozens of individuals for ...
Manahel al-Otaibi, who promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws A young women’s rights activist in Saudi Arabia was secretly ...