Two Saudi women sentenced to decades in prison over social media use have been held arbitrarily and should be released, according to UN expert findings seen Saturday by AFP.
They should be given “an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law”, it said.
The alleged abuses against her include “threats, insults, harassment and improper methods used during her interrogation”, such as taking “advantage of depression by interrogating her in the middle of the night, shortly after she had taken her antidepressant and sleeping pills”. In its response to the expert panel, Saudi Arabia rejected the findings as “unfounded” and said they lacked “supporting evidence”.Saudi officials did not respond to a request for comment from AFP on Saturday.Shehab, a member of the Shiite minority in the majority Sunni kingdom, had been studying for a doctorate in Britain when she was arrested in January 2021 while on holiday.
The evidence against her included posts championing women’s rights and retweets of a prominent Saudi women’s rights activist.
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