Human Rights
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-26
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Bríd Smith (PBP), Dublin South-Central

I thank Deputy Kenny for foregoing his very serious question on abuse of human rights in Palestine to allow me to raise this matter. The reason he did so was that yesterday Ms Loujain al-Hathoul was 1,000 days in custody and had her first appearance in court, having been transferred to the anti-terrorism court by the Saudi regime. Her crime was to have posted on social media posts on women's rights. Ms al-Hathoul was jailed just before driving was made legal for women but she also campaigned on domestic violence against women in Saudi Arabia. Ironically, yesterday was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. I am aware that the Minister has done some work on this but will he please comment on the question I have asked and will he raise the matter further with his EU counterparts?

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Sitting date: 2020-11-26