US woman detained in Saudi Arabia released amid guardianship battle
US citizen Carly Morris has been released from a Saudi prison, but says she's still unable to leave the kingdom with her young daughter.
An American woman has been released from detention in Saudi Arabia, where the country’s male guardianship system has rendered her effectively trapped in the kingdom, her family told Al-Monitor.
Carly Morris was summoned Monday to the police station in the Saudi city of Buraydah, where her family says she was accused of “disrupting public order” and transferred to a women’s prison some 40 minutes outside the city.
The 34-year-old California native said she was released without explanation overnight Wednesday. In a phone call to her parents, Morris said she returned home to find her apartment had been raided and many of her belongings were missing.
“Everything was gone. She said it was like they expected her not to come back,” Morris’ mother Denise White told Al-Monitor.
