THE second hearing into the trial of Saudi human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul took place in a special terrorism court in the autocratic kingdom today.  

She has been held in prison for over two years due to her human and women’s rights advocacy work, though the Saudi government accuses her of “undermining the kingdom’s security, stability and national unity.”

At the trial today Loujain al-Hathloul handed in her defence and was told, according to her sister Lina, “what the public prosecutor considers evidence of her alleged crimes.”