{"id":37791,"date":"2019-03-28T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37791"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:22:42","slug":"saudi-women-activists-in-court-on-human-rights-related-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37791","title":{"rendered":"Saudi women activists in court on &#8216;human rights-related&#8217; charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The trial of 11 female Saudi activists resumed in Riyadh on Wednesday, in a case that has been criticized by rights groups and drawn international condemnation.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Saudi Arabia has not yet made the charges public, but after the <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/13\/middleeast\/hathloul-trial-saudi-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">women&#8217;s last hearings on March 13<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/03\/21\/saudi-arabia-abusive-charges-against-women-activists\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Watch reported<\/a> that the charges appeared &#8220;almost entirely related to their human rights activities.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Some of the women were charged with promoting women&#8217;s rights and calling for the end of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s restrictive male guardianship system, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The charges also include contact with international organizations, foreign media and other activists, the rights groups said. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The trial of 11 female Saudi activists resumed in Riyadh on Wednesday, in a case that has been criticized by rights groups and drawn international condemnation. Saudi Arabia has not yet made the charges public, but after the women&#8217;s last hearings on March 13, Human Rights Watch reported that the charges appeared &#8220;almost entirely related&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}