The United Nations (UN) is calling for the immediate release of two women detained for criticizing the Saudi regime in messages posted on the social networking site Twitter.
In a June 19 report seen by AFP, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says it has gathered credible evidence that Salma al-Chehab and Noura al-Qahtani, who were arrested in 2022 and sentenced to 34 and 45 years in prison respectively. were subjected to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” in prison.
According to reports from human rights groups such as ALQST – Democracy for the Arab World Now and MENA Rights, detainees were subjected to “threats, insults, insults and inappropriate methods during interrogation.”
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