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<p>We are concerned that some women’s rights defenders, including Loujain al-Hathloul,
remain in detention. We raise our concerns regularly and freely, using a range of
Ministerial and diplomatic channels, including our Ambassador and Embassy team in
Riyadh. The Foreign Secretary raised the detention of women’s rights defenders during
his visit to Saudi Arabia in March. The UK was signatory to the joint statement on
7 March at the United Nations Human Rights Council which raised significant concerns
about reports of continuing arrests and arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders
in Saudi Arabia, including women's rights activists. The UK, along with other embassies
in Saudi Arabia, requested and were denied access to the trials of women’s rights
defenders that took place on 13 and 27 March.</p>
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