Shocking images show that the police of Saudi women and girls defeat in secret prisons where families send ‘disobedient’ females to be closed and are punished for years to break their minds

Shocking images obtained by MailOnline shows that the police of Saudi women who have been detained in secret facilities where families send ‘disobedient’ women and girls to be punished.

Women who were seen in the clip would experience a peaceful sit-in protest about poor living conditions in their so-called ‘care home’ in Khamis Mushair, in the province of Asir.

Being security and police officers at the Social Education Home for Girls are seen run and hit the woman; Some while they put helpless on the floor.

Women were seen dragged by their hair, beaten with belts and sticks and subject to other forms of physical abuse.

The video, which caused indignation among rights activists in Saudi -Arabia When it was circulating for the first time in 2022, it came up again Former prisoners bravely expressed their experiences in ‘Dar al-Reaya’ facilities throughout the country.

Dr. Maryam Aldossari, a Saudi academic at Royal Holloway, University of LondonMailOnline told that despite recent reforms, many women remain in these de facto prisons, are unable to leave until a male guardian allows them.

She mentioned examples of women who endure horrible circumstances in the facilities, some reportedly even moved to take their own lives due to alleged abuse.

“It still exists,” she warned. “We still know people who are there and God knows when they will leave.

‘They cut them completely [off]. There are cameras everywhere. If you are criminating, you must go to these small individual rooms, you are divorced.

“Everything can be considered a violation of women’s rights.”

Dr. Aldossari, who left Saudi Aarabia to study and work in the UK in 2008, works today with Al QST (Alqst), a human rights organization that documents and promotes human rights in Saudi -Arabia.

‘What we do hear – it is such a dark time in Saudi Arabia. This will be a police state, “she said. “People are scared.”

After the moving video was created for the first time, the local authority said it was an investigation into the incident.

It did not condemn the safety officers for the ‘flagrant and brutal attack on women’, Al QST noted and assessed that any research would ‘miss all credibility’.

They described violence by the authorities as a ‘feature’ of the Saudi prison system.

“In this respect, care homes for young women and girls (even if they are not official for female criminals) and youth prison centers are no different than prisons, where violence usually takes the form of abuse, physical attacks and sexual harassment.”

A spokesperson for the Saudi government recently refused That the care houses were detention centers and claim that ‘women are free at any time’ and can leave without the permission of a guardian or family member.

They also said that “every claim of abuse is taken seriously and is subject to thorough research.”

Dr. Aldossari rejected the claims. “The regime lies and lies and lieg and lieg,” she said.

She claimed that women could be sent to a facility as young as 13 for ‘disobedience’ and to allow them to leave them.

Despite recent reforms that nominally reinforce the rights of women, she said, there is no ‘process’ to be sent to a facility that is not officially a prison, there is no professional process and there is no consistent interpretation of the law.

“A woman can legally apply for her own passport because of the reforms,” ​​she explained, referring to the Saudi Personal Status Law (PSL), codified in 2022 and supplemented this year.

“But her male guardian can still prevent her from being traveling by serving a case of disobedience – and they didn’t even bother to define what disobedience means,” she said.

“So everyone and every man say that” my wife or my daughter “is disobedient and then all those rights will go.”

‘It [has become] As a tool of the Saudi regime to control women, “she added. “The reason can be anything. For example, you could run away from your house because you are confronted with abuse, you will be arrested by the police.

‘It can be the accusation of behavior that does not match standards. For example, being seen with a man who is not your husband. It may be because your family thought you were out of hand or even a feminist. ‘

The care homes have been around since the 1960s, initially presented as a rehabilitation ‘shelter’ for women accused or convicted of certain crimes. They would keep women between 7 and 30 years old.

A spokesperson for the Saudi government said to the Guardian: “Women are free to leave at any time, whether they go to school, work or other personal activities, and can leave permanently when they choose without approval or family member.”

But campaigners dispute the claims, with reference to women who have experienced the facilities firsthand.

If a male guardian is not prepared or available to release them, the authorities will move them to a comparable ‘guest’ facility – from which they also require the permission of a male guardian or family member to leave.

Dr. Aldossari explained that this role was inherited under the ‘ridiculous’ system in Saudi Arabia. If the husband or father of a woman is not available, her son could become responsible for his mother.

In some horrible cases, women are reportedly sent to facilities after they have sexually abused the men at home.

“She ends up in the situation that the abuser has to release her,” she said.

Women have shared moving testimonies to be sent to the facilities as a punishment for not ‘obeying’ sexual abuse at home, and then melted or closed off from seclusion until they ‘reconcile’ with their abusers.

Sarah Al-Yahia, who campaigned to abolish the houses, told the Guardian that her father had threatened to send her as a child to one of the houses ‘if I did not obey his sexual abuse’.

“If you are sexually abused or get pregnant by your brother or father, you are the one who is sent to Dar al-Re’aya to protect the reputation of the family,” she explained.

Women may have to make the impossible choice between the permanent abuse at home and the debilitating circumstances in the camps, she explained.

Some are reportedly killed by insulting relatives shortly after release.

A woman told The Guardian that she was taken to Dar al-Re’aya after she had complained about her father and brothers.

She was then reportedly abused in the institution and accused of being ashamed of her family for her social media reports on women’s rights.

She was held until her father agreed that she could be released, even though he was her alleged abuser, the outlet reports.

While testimonies of the facilities are not reported enough, some women have bravely spoken over the years.

In an Alqst report from 2021 described women who were made to be six in a row through punishment for disobedience.

A former prisoner told MBC in 2018 that she and others were made to eat their own vomit after surrendering bad food.

“They let men in to touch us. Sometimes the girls and children are confronted with sexual harassment, but when they talk, nobody listens. ‘

In other cases, local media reports of suicide in the centers, blamed the circumstances.

In 2015, a woman turned out to have hung herself from the ceiling of her room in one of the hiding places and wrote in a note: “I decided to die to escape from hell.”

A prisoner in the Mecca facility had previously said: “Dying is greasier than living in the hiding place.”