They further noted, “any allegation of abuse is taken seriously and subject to thorough investigation”.
Dr. Aldossari brushed aside the assertions. ‘The regime lie and lie and lies and lies,’ she remarked.
She insisted that women as young as thirteen might be taken to a facility for “disobedience” and there until a male guardian let them depart.
She noted, despite recent changes ostensibly bolstering women’s rights, there is no ‘trial’ to be sent to a facility not formally a prison, no mechanism of appeal, and no clear legal interpretation.
‘A woman might be legally able to seek for her own passport due of the reforms,’ she said, citing the Saudi Personal Status Law (PSL), adopted in 2022 and amended this year.
‘But her male guardian can still prohibit her from travelling by filing a case of disobedience – and they didn’t even bother to clarify what disobedience means,’ she claimed.
