Calls for Saudi Dakar Rally boycott while women’s right to drive activist in prison
by Bethan McKernan, Middle East correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5CDHQ)
Campaigners say racers will pass jail holding Loujain al-Hathloul while kingdom sportwashes' its reputation
Supporters of women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who campaigned for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia, have called for a boycott of the Dakar Rally for sportswashing" the reputation of the conservative kingdom while Hathloul remains in prison.
Racers in the off-road competition - including 12 women - are due to pass within a few hundred metres of Riyadh's Al-Ha'ir prison, where Hathloul is being held, on Tuesday.
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