Carly Morris’ “case marks the latest instance of a dissident or critic of the Saudi government being detained or convicted for using social media. Human rights activists at the Freedom Initiative, which has followed Morris’s story, said she was the third American being held in detention in Saudi Arabia.”
Saudi Arabia oppresses its dissidents routinely, and its treatment of women is evident in its male guardianship system, which degrades women, contrary to the country’s occasional optics about reforming. Saudi Arabia intends to keep on oppressing women in the name of the Sharia.
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
“US woman detained by Saudi officials after saying she has been trapped there since 2019,” by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Guardian, November 9, 2022:
A 34-year-old American woman has been detained in Saudi Arabia after she posted on Twitter that she and her young daughter had been lured to the kingdom and trapped there since 2019.
Carly Morris told relatives three years ago that she was planning to travel to Saudi Arabia for a brief period so that her eight-year-old daughter could meet her paternal grandfather. However, Morris then became locked in a years-long struggle to take her young daughter back out of the kingdom over the objections of her Saudi ex-husband. Morris’s efforts to leave have been made more difficult by Saudi Arabia’s strict male guardianship laws.
US officials on Tuesday confirmed to the Associated Press the detention of Morris, a native of California. Spokesman Ned Price said: “Our embassy in Riyadh is very engaged on this case, and they’re following the situation very closely.”
Morris was detained after being summoned to a public prosecutor’s office on Sunday in connection with an allegation that she was “destabilising public order”, according to an official document seen by the Guardian. The document states that Morris is American and lists her occupation as “housewife”.
The summons followed Morris’s publication of a lengthy statement on Twitter, in which she warned other women and children against visiting the kingdom. In the statement, she said she and her daughter had been held “against our will” in a hotel under “extreme and dire circumstances”, where they faced “extended social isolation” since 2019.
The whereabouts of Morris’s daughter, who is also an American citizen, are unknown….
The case marks the latest instance of a dissident or critic of the Saudi government being detained or convicted for using social media. Human rights activists at the Freedom Initiative, which has followed Morris’s story, said she was the third American being held in detention in Saudi Arabia.
“Morris’ detention means that we’re now aware of three Americans behind bars in Saudi Arabia…
Fitna says
So if she’s not a Saudi herself, then she must’ve married a Muslim man and had kids with him. She couldn’t be completely clueless about the bad things that happen to people in that nation, esp. to white western women. Her husband knew full well too and didn’t warn her, where is he?
They’re keeping her there because she wrote a note warning the public to avoid the country because they will hold you hostage. You kind of proved her point Saudi Arabia (SA), the cat’s out of the bag on that one.
The US has helped SA in a million different ways, in their wars, buying their oil, providing them with technology and know-how, giving them billions in military arms and this is how they repay the useful infidels? Detaining their citizens on bogus charges, funding terrorism and let’s not forget 9/11.
What America needs to do is either conquer SA and take over, or cut all relations. Even after so many examples of their treachery, we still treat them as bosom buddies.
Maybe if Trump was president he could twisted their arm to release all western hostages, but we have senile uncle Joe in power who can’t even walk straight let alone handle important political matters, what a joke the US has turned into.
If you’re a non-Muslim who knows what can happen to you in SA but you go there anyways, congrats, receive your Darwin award, you asked for it. Most non-Muslims should have the common sense by now to avoid traveling to any Islamic country, you’re putting your life in serious danger.
John1 says
+1. Couldn’t have said it any better. Any western woman who marries a Muslim is a complete idiot.
John ..Smith says
She may well have American citizenship but she certainly has the facial features of a woman from Arabia. And I agree with you, “any western woman who marries a muslim is a complete idiot”.