A disturbing video of Saudi Arabian security forces physically abusing a group of ladies and dragging them around by their hair has surfaced online.
In a video that was uploaded to Twitter, dozens of guys assaulting and lashing women with leather belts and security uniforms chase after them. Other males are clothed in Saudi national attire.
After after, a man is seen dragging one of the screaming women by her hair.
The ladies had gone on a hunger strike protesting unfavourable living circumstances in an orphanage in Khamis Mushait, a city in the Asir region, around 884 kilometres from Riyadh, the Saudi capital. This led to the cruelty.
Turki bin Talal bin Abdulaziz, the governor of the Asir area, announced on Wednesday that he had formed a committee to look into the incident and that he will “report the situation to the proper authorities.”
Saudi security forces are beating women and girls of an orphanage with belts and sticks.
Footage: a woman held down by three men while another proceeds to beat her using his belt. #ايتام_خميس_مشيط @GulfCentre4HR @Elis_Gj @courtneyr pic.twitter.com/jr1rqOnfOx— Arab Mirage (@ArabMirage) September 1, 2022
Saudi Arabia has been brutally suppressing female activists in recent weeks, and just last week, a student from Leeds University was given a 34-year prison term for using Twitter.
The video has served as another proof of how the Saudi monarchy has suppressed women’s rights while Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been in power.
Mother of two small children Salma al-Shehab, 34, received the punishment for using Twitter to “create public discontent and destabilise civil and national security.”
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