Saudi women activists should be honoured, not imprisoned

Expand Women walk past a poster of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 12, 2018.  © 2018 Reuters   Last week, Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi women's rights activist, was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.  But Loujain is in jail. She, along with a dozen other women's rights activists who have been detained, have been on a cruel and unpredictable rollercoaster ride.   Just a few days after their arrests in May 2018, the Saudi Presidency of State Security issued a statement alleging that the women were detained…

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