Under international pressure, Saudi Arabia released three women activists on bail, two of whom had pressed for women driving rights
Saudi Arabia released on bail three women’s activists facing charges for their human-rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats in a case that became a global symbol of a political crackdown under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Two of those released on Thursday, Aziza al-Yousef and Eman al-Nafjan, were part of a group of women who came to prominence for pressing the Saudi government to allow women to drive and abolish a system of male guardianship for females. They were detained in May, a month before...
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