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  • A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent women's rights activist.

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  • That's according to local media that said Hath Lula was charged with seeking to change the Saudi political system aunt, harming national security.

  • The trial has drawn international condemnation on poses an early challenge to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's relationship with US President elect Joe Biden.

  • Biden has criticized Riyadh's human rights record hath you'll has been held since 2018 following her arrest along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists, the court reportedly suspended two years and 10 months of her sentence, which means she could be released around the end of February 2021.

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  • N rights experts have called the charges spear IUs, along with leading rights groups and lawmakers in the US and Europe that have been calling for her release.

  • Hath Rule had championed women's right to drive on, called for unending of the kingdom's male guardianship system.

A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent women's rights activist.

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