Saudi women have bravely spoken out on the 'hellish' conditions inside the country's prisons for 'disobedient' women, where inmates are sent by family members to be 'rehabilitated' through an alleged violent campaign of flogging, isolation and abuse.
Sarah Al-Yahia, campaigning to abolish the homes, told the Guardian that her father had threatened to send her to a Dar al-Re'aya - literally 'care homes' - facility as a child 'if I didn't obey his sexual abuse'.
'If you are sexually abused or get pregnant by your brother or father you are the one sent to Dar al-Reaya to protect the family's reputation,' she said.
Women may have to make the impossible choice between abuse at home and the gruelling conditions inside the camps, she explained.
Inside the facilities, they may be punished with solitary confinement and floggings unless they 'reconcile' with their abusers, the human rights group ALQST reported.
