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Floggings and Virginity Tests: The Secret Prisons for Women in Saudi Arabia

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Testimony obtained by The Guardian reveals a network of "rehabilitation" facilities where young women who have been ostracized by their families and husbands for "disobedience" or extramarital affairs are sent: they are required to take religious classes, cut off from the outside world and are sometimes forced to return to violent homes. Some attempt suicide. "It's hell"
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Testimony obtained by The Guardian reveals a network of "rehabilitation" facilities where young women who have been ostracized by their families and husbands for "disobedience" or extramarital affairs are sent: they are required to take religious classes, cut off from the outside world and are sometimes forced to return to violent homes. Some attempt suicide. "It's hell"

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וואלה! broke the news in on Thursday, June 12, 2025.
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