{"id":35322,"date":"2021-02-11T12:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T12:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/saudi-arabias-release-of-loujain-al-hathloul-an-overture-to-biden"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:42:56","slug":"saudi-arabias-release-of-loujain-al-hathloul-an-overture-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/11\/saudi-arabias-release-of-loujain-al-hathloul-an-overture-to-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s release of Loujain al-Hathloul an overture to Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Analysis: <\/strong>Mohammed bin Salman views the move as an attempt to engage the new US administration<\/p><p>As Loujain al-Hathloul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/10\/saudi-womens-rights-activist-loujain-al-hathloul-released-from-prison\">marked her first day outside prison in nearly three years<\/a>, Saudi Arabia\u2019s de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman, was bracing for a reaction from Washington to what amounts to a peace offering on his part.<\/p><p>Prince Mohammed views the decision to release the women\u2019s rights activist as an attempt to belatedly engage the new administration, whose strident tone on human rights issues in its early weeks of office has all but conditioned a working relationship with Riyadh on righting the wrongs of the Trump years.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/saudi-arabias-release-of-loujain-al-hathloul-an-overture-to-biden\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/saudi-arabias-release-of-loujain-al-hathloul-an-overture-to-biden\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Mohammed bin Salman views the move as an attempt to engage the new US administrationAs Loujain al-Hathloul marked her first day outside prison in nearly three years, Saudi Arabia\u2019s de facto leader, Mohammed bin Salman, was bracing for a react&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,6,640,1258,84,1315,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35705,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35322\/revisions\/35705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}