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First Saudi women ambassador in DC
25-2-2019
Saudi Arabia announced on February 23 the appointment of Princess Rima Bint Bandar Bin Sultan as its Ambassador to Washington for the first time in the Kingdom’s history. Rima grew up in DC where she studied and graduated from a US university. Early in 1984, she traveled with family to the US when her father was appointed as ambassador. Prior to her appointment, she served as the head of women’s affairs at the General Sports Authority since 2016 and chief executive of the Saudi Federation for Community Sports since October, 2017. She was selected as one of the most powerful 200 Arab women by Forbes Middle East magazine in2014 and is a winner of Sheikh Mohamad Bin Maktoum Creative Sport Award in 2017. On the other hand, and on February 22, Saudi diplomats obstructed at Hong Kong Airport two Saudi sisters who were planning to flee to Australia, while noting that this is the second incident reported in one month about Saudi teens and girls attempting to escape. In the details, the sisters’ lawyer said the two courageous young women who renounced Islam were living in chronic worry and fear and always hiding. They arrived in Chinese territory in September when they fled their family during a vacation to Sri Lanka, he added. Meanwhile, on February 13, the EU announced that it added Saudi Arabia to the dirty-money blacklist for posing money laundering and terror financing risks. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, February 14, 24, 2019)
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