{"id":5112,"date":"2021-01-05T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/calls-for-saudi-dakar-rally-boycott-while-womens-right-to-drive-activist-in-prison"},"modified":"2021-01-05T05:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T05:30:48","slug":"calls-for-saudi-dakar-rally-boycott-while-womens-right-to-drive-activist-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/05\/calls-for-saudi-dakar-rally-boycott-while-womens-right-to-drive-activist-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Saudi Dakar Rally boycott while women\u2019s right to drive activist in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Campaigners say racers will pass jail holding Loujain al-Hathloul while kingdom \u2018sportwashes\u2019 its reputation <\/p>

Supporters of women\u2019s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who campaigned for women\u2019s right to drive in Saudi Arabia<\/a>, have called for a boycott of the Dakar Rally for \u201csportswashing\u201d the reputation of the conservative kingdom while Hathloul remains in prison.<\/p>

Racers in the off-road competition \u2013 including 12 women \u2013 are this week due to pass within a few hundred metres of Riyadh\u2019s Al-Ha\u2019ir prison, where Hathloul is being held.<\/p>

This article was amended on 5 January 2021. The original incorrectly said the rally would pass by Riyadh\u2019s Al-Ha\u2019ir prison on Tuesday. This has been corrected. <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaigners say racers will pass jail holding Loujain al-Hathloul while kingdom \u2018sportwashes\u2019 its reputation Supporters of women\u2019s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who campaigned for women\u2019s right to drive in Saudi Arabia, have called for a boycott…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1258,84,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"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\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}