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Saudi driving activist's family credits Joe Biden for release.
Saudi driving activist Loujain al-Hathloul's family said Thursday US President Joe Biden's election win helped secure her release after nearly three years' imprisonment, but cautioned she was still far from free.
Hathloul, 31, was provisionally released in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after being detained in May 2018 with about a dozen other women activists just weeks before the kingdom's historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers -- a reform they had long campaigned for.
"I would say thank you Mr President that you helped my sister to be released," Alia al-Hathloul told a virtual press conference.
https://www.rawstory.com/saudi-driving-activists-family-credits-joe-biden-for-release/