"She has been tortured, electrocuted, put in solitary confinement for eight months."
The crime committed by Loujain Al-Hathloul: defending women's rights.
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia…
The crime committed by Loujain Al-Hathloul: defending women's rights.
Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia…
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00:30The charges against Loujain are her activism, you know, and it's, they're not even based
00:37on legal sources.
00:38Things have derived, Arabia does with anyone who speaks, they imprison them and try to
00:44make them disappear.
00:45But the only different thing with Loujain is that she was public at the beginning, her
00:50face was known.
01:21Well, the ideal situation for a woman, the status of women in Saudi Arabia, is first
01:29try to treat her equal to men in legal terms.
01:41During these three years, she has been tortured, you know, electrocuted, put in solitary confinement
01:47for eight months, sexually harassed, threatened with rape, threatened with murder.
01:53But even after all of this, we felt that she still had a light in her eyes, that she was
01:59hopeful that all of this would end soon.
02:03Saudi Arabia needs to break her in order to gain her silence, because they know that even
02:10behind bars, Loujain had continued her fight and she has refused a deal they had given
02:19her in August 2019, which was that if she denies the torture, if she goes on television
02:25and denies the torture, they promised her they would release her and Loujain refused
02:29this.
02:40You could live like my life, where you're permitted to do whatever you want as a free
02:51modern woman, or you just can be imprisoned in your household.
03:10Now it's been 17 days that Loujain started her hunger strike, and Saudi authorities refused
03:16to give us any information or access to her.
03:28G20 is and should be an opportunity for world leaders to ask and urge the Saudi government
03:45to release my sister, because it's an international conference, they're hosted by Saudi Arabia
03:51and this regime is exactly the same one that is imprisoning and torturing the real reformers
03:58in the country.
03:59The summit should not be a way to legitimize this regime and make it seem like a modernized,
04:07strong country, when the people, the citizens of this country are suffering because of this