Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to stand trial in Saudi Arabia
Loujain al-Hathloul will appear in a Saudi court Wednesday more than two years after she was first detained in a crackdown on human rights defenders.
Loujain al-Hathloul will stand trial in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, her family said, nearly a month after the women's rights activist went on hunger strike to protest her prison conditions.
“We were just announced that @LoujainHathloul has a trial tomorrow,” her sister, Lina al-Hathloul, tweeted Tuesday.
“All we can hope for is that they release Loujain. I'm extremely nervous about tomorrow. But I’m also hopeful they release her. I really miss my sister. Not a second goes by that I don’t miss her,” Lina al-Hathloul told The Independent newspaper.
Weeks before Saudi Arabia lifted its ban on women driving, Hathloul and 10 other female activists were arrested in May 2018 as part of a sweeping crackdown on right-to-drive campaigners.
