In the Hell of Women's Reform Homes in Saudi Arabia

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Officially portrayed as places of rehabilitation, the Dar Al-Re的ayas actually resemble detention centres, where hundreds of young women are locked up, the only crime of which is to have taken the authority of a husband or father, or fled a violent home. Abuse is common in these institutions, according to testimonies gathered by the British daily newspaper The Guardian.