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In December, Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced to nearly six years in prison, according to state-linked media, under a vague and broadly worded counterterrorism law. 

Saudi Arabia issued its first driver's licenses to 10 women on Monday as the kingdom prepared to lift the world's only ban on women driving in three weeks, but some who campaigned for the right to drive remain under arrest.

Loujain al-Hathloul was sentenced on Monday to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly-worded law aimed at combating terrorism, according to state-linked media.

Prominent Saudi women activists are facing charges related to their human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats.

The countries are also asking for Saudi Arabia to cooperate with a U.N.-led investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at its Istanbul consulate.

Loujain al-Hathloul remains in prison even after women won the right to drive in 2018. 

Dozens of Western countries, including Canada, voiced concern at Saudi Arabia's continued detention of women activists and called for those behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to be brought to justice.

Loujain al-Hathloul's supporters say she could face up to 20 years in prison, with a sentence due as early as Monday.

Saudi Arabia published new laws early Friday that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that gave men control over women.

Loujain al-Hathloul has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2018 for defying a ban on women driving. Since then, she’s reportedly been violently tortured and sexually harassed.

Here are some details about al-Hathloul, who has been detained since 2018.

Two Saudi women activists have been detained for nearly a week for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving, family members and an activist said Sunday.

Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban to keep females from driving were referred on Thursday to a court established to try terrorism cases.

As world leaders express their sympathies after the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, critics argue they’re glossing over ongoing human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.

If Saudi Arabia doesn't want to trade with Canada, Danielle Smith says the feeling is mutual. 'I won’t be crying the blues if we stop trading with that loathsome regime.'

People familiar with the arrests say the activists were allowed just one phone call to worried relatives a week ago.

Several imprisoned Saudi human rights activists, including women, have been subjected to sexual assault and torture, Amnesty International said.

More than a dozen diplomats from the United States and Europe were barred from entering the court.

It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.