Saudi Arabia releases 3 women as other activists still held
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May 25, 2018
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi authorities have released three prominent women's rights activists, but continue to hold at least seven others in a sweep targeting prominent icons of the country's women's rights movement, activists and rights groups said Thursday.
The three women released — Aisha al-Mana, Hessah al-Sheikh and Madeha al-Ajroush— are longtime advocates of women's rights and took part in the first protest in 1990 against the kingdom's ban on women driving.
Amnesty International and people familiar with the case said the conditions of the women's release remain unknown. T...
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