Analysis: Saudi activist rejects release deal

Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying she was tortured in custody, her family has said. “The Saudi state security has visited my sister in prison recently. They have asked her to … appear on video to deny the torture and harassment,” her brother Walid al-Hathloul said on Twitter on Tuesday. “That was part of a deal to release her.”

Al-Hathloul was among a few detainees who accused interrogators of torture and sexual harassment, a charge vehemently denied by the government.

She was arrested along with a dozen others more than a year ago.

Saudi officials have denied torture allegations against al-Hathloul.

Al Jazeera speaks to international human rights lawyer Toby Cadman