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Saudi Arabia: Paris calls for the “rapid release” of Loujain al-Hathloul

 

Found guilty, Monday, December 28, of “various activities prohibited by the anti-terrorism law”, the Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul received in the wake of the support of French diplomacy. Paris demanded the “rapid release” of this figure in the struggle for human rights, who spent part of his youth in Toulon. “As we have said publicly many times before, we want Mr.me Loujain al-Hathloul, ”said a deputy spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry.

“France reiterates its constant mobilization in favor of human rights and equality between women and men,” he added. Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced Monday to five years and eight months in prison under an “anti-terrorism” law. This sentence includes the period spent in pre-trial detention, which makes her released in a few months, according to her sister Lina. The 31-year-old young woman, who has campaigned for several years to end the guardianship of men over women in this Middle Eastern kingdom, was arrested in May 2018 shortly before the lifting of the driving ban. to the Saudis.

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