Long abayas look like they’re hanging in the wind as their bodies try to escape the wind. violence. a dozen men Woman resisting from this place. They pull the headscarf, whip them with wooden sticks, wrap them with leather belts, and even wrap their wrists in handcuffs. The screams don’t stop. Other men drag a woman by her hair. This terrible event orphanage in the city of Khamis Mushait in the southwest Saudi Arabia. There, the security guards violently attacked the users of the institution for allegedly demanding improvement in their living conditions.
“If you’re wondering how MBS government security works [iniciales de Mohammed Bin Salmán, el príncipe heredero y gobernador de facto en Arabia Saudí] There is a video of them raiding an orphanage when he arbitrarily arrested people. Criminals” condemned Lina al Hazlul, the sister of feminist activist Lujain al Hazlul, who spent three years behind bars, on Twitter. It was the video he shared, secretly recorded and broadcast by an unidentified woman on the same network, creating a scandal in the country. Social networks in Saudi Arabia focused on these young women for two days with the hashtag #OrphanasdeKhamisMushait.
After the discussion, Saudi officials announced that they would launch an operation this Wednesday. Research About what happened. The governor of the Asir district, where the orphanage is located, convened a commission to investigate the incident. beating “Refer the situation to the authorities” as captured in the videos and reported by the Saudi Press Agency. Neither the circumstances surrounding the event nor the date of its occurrence have yet become clear. The Kingdom Prosecutor’s Office also claims to have opened an investigation.
Against this, Saudi Arabian Human Rights Commission announced that he had appointed a team to follow up the investigations into the incident and that he was working with the relevant authorities. Human rights organizations denounced the video as further evidence of the suppression of sexual abuse. women’s rights In the kingdom by MBS government. Saudi opposition activist speaks to Middle East Eye from London Abdullah al Jurayvi claimed that the attack came in response to the women’s strike to demand better conditions after previous protests. ill-treatment.
persecution of dissidents
revolt orphans This led the orphanage management to demand the intervention of the security forces. It is still unclear how many women were detained in the incident, as details have not yet been released by the Saudi authorities. The history of persecution and oppression Opposition in Saudi Arabia, exacerbated by MBS’s policy since he took office in 2017. violence is a macho state and patriarchal within its borders.
Lina al Hazlul on Middle East Eye, “If you whip women for demanding their rights, are you really empowering them?” she asked. “This video shows the predominant and relentless oppression of women in Saudi Arabia, the arm of the State that violently attacks women for demanding their legitimate rights, even when they have no male guardians and live in orphanages,” is also an activist for Saudi rights group ALQST. Saudi women and human rights defenders have little confidence that these investigations will yield results. convictions other than the victims themselves.