Widespread violations of women’s rights continue in Saudi Arabia.
“Saudi Leaks” website, investigating the situation of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia in the shadow of the claims of the Saudi authorities, republished a report from the Deutsche Welle TV channel and wrote that the Saudi authorities continue to discriminate against women as second-class citizens, and this is through guardianship. Unchangeable autocracy and strict rules and regulations limiting women’s rights have continued.
This report indicates that some changes made in the framework of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s plan known as “Vision 2030” for the so-called “social and economic reforms” have led to the deterioration of the condition of women.
Lina Hazloul, the sister of the imprisoned women’s rights activist, Lajin Hazloul, who works as the head of public relations and monitoring at the London-based Qast human rights organization, said: “The system of oppression still exists in Saudi Arabia.”
Also this year, the issuance of three court rulings emphasized the existence of severe discrimination between men and women in Saudi Arabia. In January, Riyadh city court, Yasser M. sentenced him to eight months in prison and a fine of 5,000 rials ($1,330) on the charge of verbal sexual harassment of a woman. This person’s case was one of the first cases to be heard after the tightening of Saudi Arabia’s anti-sexual harassment laws in 2019. However, in August, PhD student Salma al-Shahab was sentenced to 34 years in prison, and a month later, Noura bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Both women were found guilty of republishing human rights talks.
