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Detained Saudi rights activist on hunger strike
24-9-2020
The family of detained Saudi women’s rights activist, Loujain Hathloul, announced on September 1 that their daughter went on hunger strike in one of the Kingdom’s prisons following a visit to her cell after she spent two months in incommunicado detention. Recalling, that Loujain, 31, has been arrested in May, 2018, alongside 10 female human rights campaigners and other dissidents (https://bit.ly/2G1gaIi). In the details, Loujain’s sister, Lina, disclosed last Monday to the British newspaper, The Independent, that her sister’s health was deteriorating due to her hunger strike which she started when she learned that she will prevented from meeting or receiving calls from her family. Loujain, Lina said, has been in solitary confinement for 8 months now and is not known if or when she will get a fair trial or be freed. Prison authorities are forcing Loujain to eat and have summoned a team of doctors to this effect, threatening to tube feed her at the hospital. Lina pointed out that the condition of her elder sister has been going downhill. They want to suppress and hush her, she said, but added, at some point, they will have to release her, albeit they can’t stand to let go a strong woman. (Al Diyar, September 24, 2020)
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