Mayaa al-Zahrani
Mayaa al-Zahrani
Personal information
Name: Mayaa al-Zahrani
Name in Arabic: مياء الزهراني
Date of Birth: Unknown
Gender: Female
Marital status: Unknown
Profession: Human rights activist , Women’s rights activist
Place of residence: Unknown
Arrest and jail information
Date of arrest:9 June 2018
Manner of arrest: Hours after publishing article on her friend Nouf Abdelaziz
Where held: Al-Ha’ir Prison, Riyadh
Trial information
Alleged crimes: Unknown
Victim's charges: Unknown
Court: Criminal Court
Verdict: Unknown
Date of verdict: Unknown
Updates on trial: She was called to attend hearing sessions on the following dates: 13/03/2019, 27/03/2019, 03/04/2019, 17/04/2019 On 30 January 2020, Mayaa appeared before the Criminal Court in Riyadh (along with Loujain al-Hathloul). The public prosecutor read the charges against her and she responded to all the charges. In Mayaa's next trial session on 12 February, the public prosecutor responded to her defence, repeating previous charges. The judge asked her to respond to the prosecutor in the next trial, scheduled for 11 March 2020 but the trial was postponed until 18 March 2020
Previous arrests:
Human Rights Violations
Violations: Arbitrary arrest/ detention , Enforced disappearance , Denied contact with family , Denied access to a lawyer , Torture and ill-treatment, placed in solitary confinement , Sexual violence
Violation details: She was tortured and sexually molested and was placed in solitary confiement
References
Reference 1: None
Reference 2: None
Reference 3: https://alqst.org/prisonersofconscience/mayaa-al-zahrani
Reference 4: None
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