tanahMALAyu - Puteri Arab yang telah dikunci oleh bapa mereka - raja Arab Saudi - selama kira-kira 13 tahun untuk bercakap menentang penindasan di negara wanita ini, memberitahu RT mereka berada di mod kelangsungan hidup dalam istana mereka sendiri.
"Kami kehabisan makanan dan air. Kita berada di mod terus hidup. Kami makan beberapa makanan yang telah tamat tempohnya. Semua yang kita boleh mencari," Sahar dan Jawaher Al Saud, anak-anak perempuan Arab Saudi Raja Abdullah, memberitahu RT.
Adik-beradik yang disimpan, sebagaimana yang mereka katakan, supaya mereka dalam 2 buah rumah-rumah besar di dalam sebatian diraja di bandar Jeddah bersama-sama dengan 2 saudara perempuan mereka yang lain - Maha dan Hala. Mereka yang berumur antara 38 dan 42 antara, dengan sekurang-kurangnya satu dikatakan mengalami masalah psikologi.
"Kita ingin tahu apa yang kita sedang didakwa. Kami ingin tahu bahawa . . . Ini dipanggil kurungan dan kurungan adalah haram mana-mana sahaja di DUNIA. Ini salah, "tambah Sahar dan Jawaher.
Adik-beradik berkata mereka sedang menunggu untuk badan-badan antarabangsa untuk bertindak balas terhadap keadaan mereka.
"Kami sedang menunggu untuk mendengar daripada beberapa yang dipanggil ma-syarakat antarabangsa, semua orang yang mempertahankan hak asasi manusia dan jelas memang-gil pertubuhan hak asasi manusia untuk keluar dan sebenarnya memegang raja dan anak-anaknya ke akaun," Sahar dan Jawaher memberitahu RT.
Sebelum itu, dalam wawancara yang jarang berlaku kepada media, adik-beradik berkata, mereka tidak mempunyai apa-apa pasport atau ID dan raja juga telah mengharamkan mana-mana lelaki untuk mendapatkan bantuan anak-anak perempuannya dalam perkahwinan.
Dalam temu bual itu kepada New York Post pada bulan April, adik-beradik berkata mereka mengalami dehidrasi dan bilik mereka dipenuhi dengan pepijat. Air dan elektrik telah ditutup secara rawak, kadang-kadang selama beberapa hari atau beberapa minggu, kata mereka.
Menurut ibu mereka, Alanoud Al-Fayez , yang berkahwin dengan raja Abdullah kembali di tahun 1970-an apabila dia hanya 15, "kes anak-anak perempuan beliau 'adalah kecil daripada bilangan itu."
"Mereka bercakap tentang memandu. Ia agak melucukan . . . wanita di Arab Saudi memerlukan lebih daripada memandu, mereka perlu hak-hak mereka yang pertama, "Al- Fayez, keturunan keluarga Jordan baik-untuk-melakukan, memberitahu RT.
"Anak-anak saya telah dizalimi psikologi, ada yang didera secara fizikal, kadang-kadang oleh saudara-saudara mereka, bapa, ya nasib anak-anak saya 'menonjolkan ini," tambah beliau.
Abdullah yang mempunyai lebih 30 isteri, dan telah menjadi bapa kepada lebih 40 kanak-kanak, bercerai AlFayez pada 1980-an. Pada tahun 2001 dia pergi ke London.
Pada tahun 2002, kurang daripada satu tahun selepas Al-Fayez melarikan diri, Abdullah mula menyeksa anak-anak perempuannya. Gadis-gadis memberitahu ibu mereka bahawa dia sekat makanan dan air mereka untuk memastikan mereka jinak apabila adik-beradik secara terbuka bercakap dalam pembangkang untuk wanita yang haram ditahan dan diletakkan di wad mental.
Pada bulan Mac, Al- Fayez bertanya Barack Obama, yang melawat Riyadh, ibu negara Arab, untuk membantu melepaskan anak perempuannya.
"Mereka perlu diselamatkan dan dibebaskan dengan segera. Encik Obama perlu mengambil peluang ini untuk menangani pelanggaran kubur yang dilakukan terhadap anak-anak perempuan saya, "katanya, dilaporkan AFP.
Pihak berkuasa Arab Saudi, bagaimanapun, menolak dakwaan itu dengan berkata puteri dibenarkan bebas bergerak Jeddah, selagi mereka ditemani oleh pengawal peribadi.
Sementara itu, pada bulan April Sahar menggesa perlu ada revolusi popular terhadap bapanya dalam mesej video beliau.
"Salam sejahtera kepada orang yang mati syahid dan orang-orang bebas dalam penjara! Ia merupakan satu penghormatan bagi saya untuk mempelajari erti kebebasan, hak dan maruah daripada anda orang revolusi . . . Tuhan akan berada di atas kami, "kata beliau.
Wanita di SA tidak boleh pergi ke sekolah, perjalanan, buka mana-mana perniagaan atau mendapatkan rawatan perubatan tanpa kebenaran lelaki. Ia adalah satu-satunya negara di dunia yang melarang wanita daripada memandu.
Percubaan untuk menentang peraturan ini adalah sedikit dan jarang berjaya. Protes terbaru terhadap pengharaman wanita memandu pada bulan Oktober 2013 menyaksikan 60 aktivis mengambil untuk roda Sekurang-kurangnya 16 wanita telah dihalang oleh polis semasa protes ini; mereka telah dikenakan denda dan dipaksa tunduk kepada undang-undang negeri. Banyak ulama Arab mengutuk perbuatan itu.
'Tiada pembaharuan sebenar di Arab Saudi'
Menurut Naseer Alomari, penulis dan pengulas politik, "yang lambat laun menjadi keras kritikan" ke arah SA telah meningkat dilihat daripada media sosial.
"Sistem undang-undang di Arab Saudi adalah tidak diturunkan. Tidak ada pembaharuan sebenar berlaku di Arab Saudi dan Saudi memahami ini lebih daripada pada bila-bila dalam sejarah mereka," Alomari memberitahu RT.
Alomari menambah bahawa pentadbiran Obama "berpaling mata" kepada pencabulan hak asasi manusia yang telah pergi sekian lama di negara ini.
"Anda tidak boleh mempunyai seorang pegawai Amerika pada rekod sebagai berkata bahawa" kita tidak menerima pencabulan hak asasi manusia. '. . . Orang-orang Arab di Timur Tengah boleh melihat kepura-puraan dan bercakap 2 kali apabila ia datang kepada pelanggaran manusia di Arab Saudi dan seluruh DUNIA Arab, " katanya.
Pada bulan Mac, semasa lawatan Obama ke negara itu, tertakluk pada undang-undang anti-pengganas kontroversi baru tidak dibangkitkan, menurut seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat walaupun memuncak kebimbangan pencabulan hak asasi manusia di negara ini.
Sebelum itu, kumpulan hak asasi manusia menggesa Obama lagi undang-undang anti-keganasan baru kontroversi dalam kerajaan Saudi bahawa apa-apa perbuatan yang menjejaskan keselamatan negara boleh dianggap sebagai tindakan keganasan .
Kumpulan hak asasi manusia seperti Amnesty International dan Human Rights Watch (HRW) telah sangat vokal dalam tuntutan mereka bahawa Arab Saudi melembutkan Kawalan ketat ke atas aktivis hak asasi manusia di negara ini.
'We have no water, running out of food:' Saudi princesses kept hostages by king in their own palace
The Saudi princesses who have been locked up by their father - the king of Saudi Arabia - for about 13 years for speaking out against the country's oppression of women, told RT they are on survival mode in their own palace.
“We are running out of food and out of water. We are on survival mode. We are eating some expired food. All that we can find,” Sahar and Jawaher Al Saud, the daughters of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, told RT.
The sisters are being kept, as they say, against their will in two mansions inside a royal compound in the city of Jeddah along with their two other sisters - Maha and Hala. They are between the ages of 38 and 42, with at least one said to be suffering from psychological problems.
“We’d like to know what we are being charged with. We’d like to know that. ... This is called captivity and captivity is illegal anywhere in the world. This is abuse,” Sahar and Jawaher added.
The sisters say they are waiting for international bodies to react to their situation.
“We are waiting to hear from some so-called international community, everyone who is defending human rights and obviously call human rights organizations to come out and actually hold the king and his sons to account,” Sahar and Jawaher told RT.
Earlier, in rare interviews to media outlets, the sisters said they don’t have any passports or ID and the king has also forbidden any man to seek his daughters’ hands in marriage.
In the interview to the New York Post in April, the sisters said they were suffering from dehydration and their rooms were full with bugs. Water and electricity were shut off at random, sometimes for days or even weeks, they added.
According to their mother, Alanoud Al-Fayez, who married king Abdullah back in 1970s when she was only 15, “her daughters’ case is a tip of the iceberg.”
“They speak about driving. It’s funny… women in Saudi Arabia need more than driving, they need their rights first,” Al-Fayez, a descendant of a well-to-do Jordanian family, told RT.
“My daughters were mistreated psychologically, some are physically abused, sometimes by their brothers, father, yes my daughters’ plight is highlighting this,” she added.
Abdullah who has had over 30 wives, and has fathered more than 40 children, divorced AlFayez in the 1980s. In 2001 she left for London.
In 2002, less than one year after Al-Fayez escaped, Abdullah began tormenting his daughters. The girls told their mother that he drugged their food and water to keep them docile when the sisters openly spoke in opposition to women being illegally detained and placed in mental wards.
In March, Al-Fayez asked Barack Obama, who visited Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to help release her daughters.
“They need to be saved and released immediately. Mr Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters,” she said, reported AFP.
The Saudi Arabia authorities, however, rejected the allegations, saying the princesses are allowed to freely move about Jeddah, as long as they are accompanied by bodyguards.
Meanwhile, in April Sahar urged there should be a popular revolution against her father in her video message.
“Greetings to martyrs and to free men in jail! It is an honor for me to learn the meaning of freedom, rights and dignity from you revolutionary people … God’s hand will be above us,” she said.
Women in SA can’t go to school, travel, open any business or get medical treatment without male permission. It is the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving.
Attempts to resist the rules are few and rarely successful. The latest protest against the ban on woman driving in October 2013 saw some 60 activists taking to the wheel At least 16 women were stopped by police during this protest; they were fined and forced to obey state laws. Many Saudi clerics condemned the act.
'No real reform in Saudi Arabia'
According to Naseer Alomari, writer and political commentator, “the crescendo of the criticism” towards SA has increased judging from social media.
“The legal system in Saudi Arabia is not even written down. There is no real reform going on in Saudi Arabia and the Saudis understand this more than at any time in their history,” Alomari told RT.
Alomari added that the Obama administration “turned a blind eye” to these human rights violations that have gone on for so long in the country.
“You can never have an American official on record as saying that ‘we do not accept human rights violations.’ … Arabs in the Middle East can see the hypocrisy and the double talk when it comes to human violations in Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world,” he added.
In March, during Obama’s visit to the kingdom, the subject on the new controversial anti-terrorist law wasn’t raised, according to a US official despite mounting concern over human rights abuses in the country. Earlier, human rights groups urged Obama to mention a controversial new anti-terror law in the Saudi kingdom that any act that undermines the security of the state may be treated as an act of terrorism.
Rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have been extremely vocal in their demands that Saudi Arabia soften its clampdown on human rights activists in the country.
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