Inside Saudi Arabia's 'hellish' secret prisons for 'disobedient' women

Saudi women have bravely spoken out on the 'hellish' conditions inside the country's prisons for 'disobedient' women, where inmates are sent by family members to be 'rehabilitated' through an alleged violent campaign of flogging, isolation and abuse.

Women have shared harrowing testimonies of being sent to the facilities as punishment for not 'obeying' sexual abuse at home, and then flogged or locked away in isolation until they 'reconcile' with their abusers.

The human rights group ALQST has documented wider cases of abuse and neglect; malnutrition; poor health and hygiene; mistreatment and brutality; excessive use of solitary confinement; and denigration.

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