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Yeah, his name is Abdulaziz Alwasil.

Human Rights Watch says about women's rights in Saudi Arabia:

The Personal Status Law [in Saudi Arabia] requires women to obtain a male guardian’s permission to marry, codifying the country’s longstanding practice. Married women are required to obey their husbands in a “reasonable manner.” The law further states that neither spouse may abstain from sexual relations or cohabitation without the other spouse’s consent, implying a marital right to intercourse.

While a husband can unilaterally divorce his wife, a woman can only petition a court to dissolve their marriage contract on limited grounds and must “establish [the] harm” that makes the continuation of marriage “impossible” within those grounds. The law does not specify what constitutes “harm” or what evidence can be submitted to support a case, leaving judges wide discretion in the law’s interpretation and enforcement to maintain the status quo.

Fathers remain the default guardians of their children, limiting a mother’s ability to participate fully in decisions related to her child’s social and financial well-being. A mother may not act as her child’s guardian unless a court appoints her, and she will otherwise have limited authority to make decisions for her child’s well-being, even in cases where the parents do not live together and judicial authorities decide that the child should live with the mother.

It is absurd that Saudia Arabia will be hosting the UN Comission for Womens rights. ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters? Saudia Arabia is as shit as Iran's regime.

Religion and patriarchal control and oppression of women pretty much anywhere in the world is like white on rice.

Obscene oil wealth that swallows up any attempts to focus on the regimes across the board human rights abuses. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which oversees about $650 billion in assets invests in US and global markets, in twitter, banks, in global sports, in US weapons, in surveillance, in wars... Saudi golf takeover is blueprint for what they want to do everywhere else

Logic and reasoning were never on the table unfortunately.

Selective enforcement probably, especially towards a known women's right advocate.

They were pretty brave to go through with these sort of protests, but at the same time, Saudi Arabia is just not the country to do this sort of thing. It is a harsh religious dictatorship that only respects the richest of its citizens. The best thing to do is to leave, and encourage others to do so. I know that's not an easy thing to do, but it's certainly better than to spend the rest of your life being beaten in a prison cell.

This reminds me of the futility of White Rose.

Let's see: a bunch of people who get multi-million "stipends" a year whose goal in life is either to live the big life, plus 2/3rds of the citizens getting hired by the government onto "management" positions with an average workweek of (ONE) 1 hour... and you want them to do, what? stop acting like uber-spoiled brats?

Change would require like, actual work, or something. They're easily two generations into being spoiled, the reality check will be so hard it's hard to imagine.

But...god

Yeah, but it's not only the west. It seems there is no such thing as politics if and when enough money is involved.