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Saudi Arabia’s secretive rehabilitation ‘prisons’ for disobedient women

“Every girl growing up in Saudi knows about Dar al-Reaya and how awful it is. It’s like hell. I tried to end my life when I found out I was going to be taken to one. I knew what happened to women there and thought I can’t survive it.” Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn This is what one young Saudi woman who fled into exile told our reporter Deepa Parent about her experience of one of Saudi Arabia’s notoriously secretive Dar al-Reaya, which are so-called “care homes”, to where women are banished by their families or husbands for crimes such as disobeying the male members of their families, so they can be “rehabilitated” and returned to their families. Activists say these institutions, which they refer to as “prisons”, are one of the regime’s lesser-known tools for controlling and punishing women, and they want them to be abolished. Speaking out in public or sharing footage of these Dar al-Reaya has become impossible in a country where voices on women’s rights appear to have been silenced. But over the past six months, the Guardian has gathered testimony about what it is like inside these institutions, where girls and young women describe facing flogging and abuse. A Saudi government spokesperson said there was a network of specialised care facilities that supported vulnerable groups, including women and children affected by domestic violence. It categorically rejected claims of enforced confinement, mistreatment or coercion. Read the stories of some of the women who say they were detained, or threatened with detention, at one of these centres, in Deepa Parent and Tom Levitt’s full report ► https://www.theguardian.com/global-de... #saudiarabia #saudiprisons #saudi #women #daralreaya