Set us free, plead Saudi princesses

[M. Sarmad]

Hala Jaber Published: 9 March 2014

Princesses Sahar and Jawaher say they have been held in a villa since 2001

TWO daughters of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia claim that they and their sisters have been held against their will for the past 13 years in the royal palace compound in Jeddah.

Princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, have appealed for help in emails and phone calls to The Sunday Times from the closely guarded villa they say they share.

“We slowly watch each other fading into nothingness,” they wrote in an email.

They said their sister Hala, 39, held alone in another villa, had told them “that her mind is slipping away. . . that the life is being sucked out of her . . .”

A fourth sister, Maha, 41, is also held separately in another villa in the palace compound, they said.

The princesses’ explosive claims open a window onto the usually closed world of the secretive royal family in a country where women’s rights are strictly curtailed.

Their mother, Alanoud Alfayez

Set us free, plead Saudi princesses | The Sunday Times

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

And why is that? What is known is that one of Saudi king is an open woman who serves women rights in the kingdom. She appears in public with half covered hair. I find this hard to believe considering the media campaign to distort kingdom's reputation from time to time.

The king has nothing to do with women rights, Saudi people themselves and their culture prefer to live conservatively. They're fine with it.

 

[M. Sarmad]

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The confinement of four Saudi princesses is a reminder that the Gulf states are evil empires, especially if you are a woman - Comment - Voices - The Independent

 

[al-Hasani]

Hala Jaber Published: 9 March 2014

Princesses Sahar and Jawaher say they have been held in a villa since 2001

TWO daughters of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia claim that they and their sisters have been held against their will for the past 13 years in the royal palace compound in Jeddah.

Princesses Sahar, 42, and Jawaher, 38, have appealed for help in emails and phone calls to The Sunday Times from the closely guarded villa they say they share.

“We slowly watch each other fading into nothingness,” they wrote in an email.

They said their sister Hala, 39, held alone in another villa, had told them “that her mind is slipping away. . . that the life is being sucked out of her . . .”

A fourth sister, Maha, 41, is also held separately in another villa in the palace compound, they said.

The princesses’ explosive claims open a window onto the usually closed world of the secretive royal family in a country where women’s rights are strictly curtailed.

Their mother, Alanoud Alfayez

Set us free, plead Saudi princesses | The Sunday Times

Yeah right. Several princesses have high level positions in private companies or abroad and we are to believe this? That just those 2 or 3 are kept inside a palace (poor things) for no apparent reason?

All while King Abdullah have been well-known for making pushes for liberal laws and changes and is a champion of women rights?

My reaction:

 

[RazPaK]

Sharmoota.

Let them free.

 

[al-Hasani]

The confinement of four Saudi princesses is a reminder that the Gulf states are evil empires, especially if you are a woman - Comment - Voices - The Independent

500.000 views.

Enough with this nonsense. My sisters that are in KSA are all educated and have high positions in the society as do most of my other female relatives and that is a picture most Saudi Arabians can recall.

Saudi Arabinan women are kicking *** academically in KSA and abroad (USA, Europe) so that's nonsense.

 

[M. Sarmad]

Yeah right. Several princesses have high level positions in private companies or abroad and we are to believe this? That just those 2 or 3 are kept inside a palace (poor things) for no apparent reason?

All while King Abdullah have been well-known for making pushes for liberal laws and changes and is a champion of women rights?

My reaction:

The confinement of four Saudi princesses is a reminder that the Gulf states are evil empires, especially if you are a woman - Comment - Voices - The Independent

In the country where Islam’s most precious shrine is located, there is no equality, no dignity, no basic humanity extended to daughters, sisters, or mothers

 

[al-Hasani]

The confinement of four Saudi princesses is a reminder that the Gulf states are evil empires, especially if you are a woman - Comment - Voices - The Independent

In the country where Islam’s most precious shrine is located, there is no equality, no dignity, no basic humanity extended to daughters, sisters, or mothers

Complete and utter nonsense.

Only this interview is right and only partially.

Stop spreading nonsense feminism.

 

[RazPaK]

500.000 views.

Enough with this nonsense. My sisters that are in KSA are all educated and have high positions in the society as do most of my other female relatives and that is a picture most Saudi Arabians can recall.

Saudi Arabinan women are kicking *** academically in KSA and abroad (USA, Europe) so that's nonsense.

Education is the most important thing other than cleanliness in Islam, in my opinion.

 

[halupridol]

those r pretty ladies
this is atrocious....ladies I am coming!!

 

[EyanKhan]

Yeah right. Several princesses have high level positions in private companies or abroad and we are to believe this? That just those 2 or 3 are kept inside a palace (poor things) for no apparent reason?

All while King Abdullah have been well-known for making pushes for liberal laws and changes and is a champion of women rights?

My reaction:

Hehe Dude you're back

 

[al-Hasani]

Education is the most important thing other than cleanliness in Islam, in my opinion.

Saudi Arabian women are better academically than the men and much more hard-working. Also there are nearly 100.000 Saudi Arabian women studying abroad from China, USA, Europe other parts of the Arab world etc.

This is just another Western anti-Arab/East campaign.

Who pays them for doing this? I would like to know this.

 

[RazPaK]

Saudi Arabian women are better academically than the men and much more hard-working. Also there are nearly 100.000 Saudi Arabian women studying abroad from China, USA, Europe other parts of the Arab world etc.

This is just another Western anti-Arab/East campaign.

Yes I know.

You Saudi guys are effing lazy. LOL.

I have met many of you guys in US. Students. All the wives are going for higher education(masters/phd), while the guys have trouble with English.

 

[al-Hasani]

Yes I know.

You Saudi guys are effing lazy. LOL.

I have met many of you guys in US. Students. All the wives are going for higher education(masters/phd), while the guys have trouble with English.

Far from all obviously but the women are seriously among the best performers academically not only in the US but Europe as well. So that's a very good sign. But that is because they want to prove themselves while the men never need to do that so….

Many Saudi Arabians have conservative views about women. Such as them needing protection and that this field is not for them and that they cannot do this and that. So they are very motivated to prove them wrong.

 

[M. Sarmad]

Complete and utter nonsense.

This is just another Western anti-Arab/East campaign.

You are in the state of mind called denial