HOW many Saudi women’s rights activists have to be arrested, detained and possibly face the death penalty before “self-identifying feminist” Theresa May rethinks Britain’s links with Riyadh?

That, according to Saudi Arabia’s Okaz newspaper, is what faces six women and three men who are locked up solely for defending human rights denied to women.

When activists are berated as “traitors,” especially in a medieval dictatorship such as the House of Saud, the consequences are invariably serious.