U.N. rights investigator calls on Saudi Arabia to free women activists

An investigator for the U.N. Human Rights Council urged member states on Thursday to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists before a G20 nations summit which Riyadh will be hosting in November.At least a dozen prominent women's rights activists were arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2018 as it lifted a ban on women driving cars, a step that many of the detainees had long campaigned for.In a speech to the council in Geneva, Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary o