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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 08:51 PM Nov 2014

Saudi women's rights activist arrested for 'insulting Islam'

The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Nov. 01, 2014 | 04:06 PM
Saudi women's rights activist arrested for 'insulting Islam'

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has arrested a prominent campaigner for women's rights for insulting Islam, activists said on Saturday, accusing authorities of trying to crush all dissent.

Suad al-Shamari, a co-founder of a liberal human rights group, is being held in prison, according to two activists who did not want to be named...

...In another tweet last month, she said she had been called "immoral and an infidel because I criticized their sheiks," referring to religious or tribal leaders.

She recently appealed to King Abdullah and the interior minister over the case of two women who, she alleged, were arrested by religious police for taking a taxi driven by a man....

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Nov-01/276198-saudi-womens-rights-activist-arrested-for-insulting-islam.ashx#ixzz3Hxilr8RZ

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Saudi women's rights activist arrested for 'insulting Islam' (Original Post) theHandpuppet Nov 2014 OP
Oh those Arabians. littlemissmartypants Nov 2014 #1
I really hope that someday shenmue Nov 2014 #2
Ben Affleck and Rula Jebreal approves. eom mr_liberal Nov 2014 #3

littlemissmartypants

(22,504 posts)
1. Oh those Arabians.
Sun Nov 2, 2014, 08:58 PM
Nov 2014

Can't live with them, can't kill them.


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