Saudi Arabia: Women's rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul sentenced to 5 years in jail

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"She has been tortured, electrocuted, put in solitary confinement for eight months."  Now, she's been sentenced to 5 years in jail. The crime committed by Loujain Al-Hathloul: defending women's rights.  Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia…

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00:00The

00:27charges against Loujain are her activism, you know, and they're not even based on legal sources.

00:33Things how Arabia does with anyone who speaks, they imprison them and try to make them disappear.

00:39But the only different thing with Loujain is that she was public at the beginning, her face was known.

00:57I'm driving my own car, with an Emirati license, in an attempt to continue the woman's right to drive the car.

01:05We'll see what happens.

01:19Well, the ideal situation for a woman, the status of women in Saudi Arabia is

01:23first try to treat her equal to men in legal terms.

01:36During these three years she has been tortured, you know, electrocuted, put in solitary confinement for eight months,

01:43sexually harassed, threatened with rape, threatened with murder.

01:48But even after all of this, we felt that she still had a light in her eyes,

01:53that she was hopeful that all of this would end soon.

01:58Saudi Arabia needs to break her in order to gain her silence,

02:04because they know that even behind bars Loujain has continued her fight,

02:08and she has refused a deal they have given her in August 2019,

02:15which was that if she denies the torture, if she goes on television and denies the torture,

02:21they promised her they would release her, and Loujain refused this.

02:24You could live like my life, where you're permitted to do whatever you want as a free, modern woman,

02:44or you just can be imprisoned in your household.

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