Following almost a year of (intentional) delay, women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia were back in court this week: via PENamerica
After nearly a year of brutal treatment and a sham legal process, defendants scheduled to appear in Riyadh court Wednesday – After ten months of hiatus in the legal process, several imprisoned women’s rights activists in Saudi Arabia will reportedly face a hearing on the trumped-up cybercrime charges filed against them in March 2019.
. In a hearing held January 31, according to reports received by PEN America, the prosecutor presented the same charges that were filed in 2019, and tomorrow’s hearing will provide the defendants with the opportunity to respond., director of Free Expression at Risk Programs, said the following: “After almost two years in detention, and lengthy and unexplained delays in the sham trial that began in March 2019, Loujain and her fellow activists will again appear in court, asked to respond to the same absurd charges under the cybercrime law that were presented against them. They have not had access to a lawyer, and have been subjected to torture and other forms of abuse while incarcerated.
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