Islamic misogyny Saudi Arabia

SAUDI PRINCESSES BEGGING FOR HELP TO BE RELEASED FROM CONFINEMENT…….

 

Saudi Arabia, a place where one can still visit the seventh century and not be in a museum.

And when Saudi princesses are not being held prisoner or seeking asylum, they’re busy holding others as prisoners.

NOTE: It’s tough being a female in any Islamic land or household.

Prisoners at the palace: Saudi princesses plead for help as they claim they are being held by the king against their will

  • Princesses plead for help from captivity at royal compound in Jeddah
  • Their mother has written to UN human rights agency to intervene
  • Saudi Arabia is one of the worst countries in the world for women’s rights

By DAMIEN GAYLE

PUBLISHED: 02:09 GMT, 9 March 2014 | UPDATED: 02:43 GMT, 9 March 2014

King Abdullah: Two daughters of the Saudi leader say that they and their sisters are being held against their will in the royal compound in Jeddah

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King Abdullah: Two daughters of the Saudi leader say that they and their sisters are being held against their will in the royal compound in Jeddah

Two daughters of the King of Saudi Arabia claim they and their sisters have been held prisoner in the royal palace for 13 years.

Princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, said that they are being kept against their will in a guarded villa in the royal compound in Jeddah.

Their claims shed light into the usually secret world of royal family of a country where women are effectively treated as second-class citizens.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. It scored 130th out of 134 countries analysed by the World Economic forum in a 2009 report on gender parity.

But the restrictions allegedly placed on Sahar and Jawaher go well beyond what is allowed under Saudi law.

In emails and phonecalls to a Sunday newspaper, Sahar and Jawaher claimed that their sisters Hala, 39, and Maha, 41, are also being held, incommunicado, in separate villas in the Jeddah compound.

Their mother Alanoud Alfayez, who is divorced from Saudi King Abdullah, has reportedly written to the UN’s human rights agency to intervene on their behalf.

She told the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that her daughters are ‘imprisoned, held against their will, cut off from the world’, according to a report in the Sunday Times.

Sahar and Jawaher told the paper in an email that they are kept alone in a house most of which they have closed off as they have been left to fend for themselves with nobody to help them with the housework.

‘We slowly watch each other fading away into nothingness,’ they said, adding that their sister Hala had told them ‘that her mind is slipping away … that the life is being sucked out of her.’

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