Loujain al-Hathloul’s sister told Reuters on Tuesday that she had started her campaign a day earlier.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
She “told [our parents] she is exhausted of being mistreated and deprived from hearing her family's voices," Lina al-Hathloul cited her as saying.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Hathoul last went on a hunger strike for six days in August after being allowed to take no more than one family phone call and two visits throughout six months.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The 31-year-old graduate of University of British Columbia in Canada is being held at the capital Riyadh's al-Hair prison. She has been one of the staunchest supporters of removal of the kingdom’s ban on females’ driving and its high-handed male guardianship laws.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
She was arrested that year alongside at least a dozen other women activists surprisingly after the kingdom’s ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was reported to have canceled the ban and relaxed the guardianship system.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Al-Hathoul had first been detained in 2014 and held for more than 70 days in custody after attempting to drive from the neighboring United Arab Emirates to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
According to her family and rights groups, Loujain and two other of the female activists faced solitary confinement as well as sexual harassment and torture during interrogation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Saudi officials have denied torture allegations and said the arrests were made on suspicion of “harming Saudi interests and offering support to hostile elements abroad.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bin Salman has been trying to project himself as the champion of reformation in the kingdom. His 2017-present tenure as the country’s heir to the throne has, however, witnessed sweeping arrest campaigns, including against activists, dissidents, and clerics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In 2018, the crown prince’s incumbency witnessed its yet most gruesome Saudi-linked atrocity that featured assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Turkish officials say Khashoggi’s body was dismembered upon his assassination and his remains are yet to be found. In the aftermath of the killing, a CIA report said that the Saudi crown prince had ordered the assassination of the journalist, who was an outspoken critic of bin Salman.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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