Family of jailed Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul to appeal sentencing https://t.co/ibxmTaKsm8 pic.twitter.com/pHq6vRlu9J
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 29, 2020
- Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Halthoul was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for campaigning for women’s right to drive and an end to the male guardianship system in a special terrorism court. Her family will appeal the ruling.
- Lebanon’s parliament passed the first laws in the nation criminalizing sexual harassment. Offenders can be sentenced to as much as four years in prison.
- Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan who reported from Wuhan at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak has been sentenced to four years by a Shanghai court after being found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
- Two US women’s prisons in Vermont and Florida are investigated for a “disturbing degree” of sexual abuse and rape of female inmates by male prison officials.