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Title: Meghan Markle’s friend tortured in Saudi prison for fighting for women’s rights
Post by: rangerrebew on February 02, 2019, 04:48:32 pm

Meghan Markle’s friend tortured in Saudi prison for fighting for women’s rights

MEGHAN MARKLE’S friend has been jailed and tortured in Saudi Arabia for fighting for women’s rights, her family say. Loujain al-Hathloul is a globally respected activist who once graced Vanity Fair alongside her friend Meghan Markle.

By Joe Duggan
PUBLISHED: 06:30, Sat, Feb 2, 2019 | UPDATED: 15:00, Sat, Feb 2, 2019


But today, the 29-year-old languishes in a Riyadh prison cell, with her family reporting she has been subjected to electric-shock torture, and threats of rape and death in a “palace of terror”. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International believe other imprisoned rights’ activists are being subjected to similar horrific treatment. A source close to the activists told Express.co.uk: “Loujain is starting to speak more and more about the torture. She is experiencing very hard post-trauma. She is shaking and she cannot control herself sometimes. We want them to be released. But we just don’t know when they will be.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1081266/meghan-markle-news-friend-Loujain-al-Hathloul-prison-jailed-saudi-arabia (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1081266/meghan-markle-news-friend-Loujain-al-Hathloul-prison-jailed-saudi-arabia)