U.S. calls on Saudi Arabia to lift travel bans on released women activists

GENEVA – The US urged its ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to raise journey bans and different restrictions imposed on beforehand launched ladies’s rights activists.

Michele Taylor, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council, additionally referred to as on the dominion to resolve circumstances of ‘prisoners of conscience’ – a time period generally referring to political prisoners.

“We urge Saudi Arabia to totally resolve circumstances of prisoners of conscience and to raise journey bans and different restrictions on beforehand launched ladies’s rights activists,” Taylor advised the Geneva discussion board in a speech coinciding with Worldwide Girls’s Day noticed on March 8.

She didn't title any political prisoners or lately launched ladies activists subjected to restricted motion.

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