SrikandiTV - Akibat kekurangan keperluan asas mereka, 4 puteri diraja Arab disimpan dalam 13 tahun pengasingan oleh bapa mereka, Raja Abdullah, telah melebihi 60 hari tanpa makanan.
Anak-anak perempuan raja jatuh daripada memihak bapa mereka untuk bercakap menen-tang rawatan sakit wanita dalam kerajaan Teluk. Ia juga dipercayai bahawa raja itu marah pada ibu perempuan untuk tidak memberinya anak lelaki.
2 daripada puteri, Sahar dan Jawaher, berkata mereka yang disimpan supaya mereka dalam 2 rumah-rumah besar di dalam sebatian diraja di bandar Jeddah, bersama-sama dengan mereka yang lain 2 saudara perempuan - Maha dan Hala. Mereka berkata mereka telah dilucutkan makanan selama lebih 60 hari dan punyai akses yang sangat sedikit dengan air.
"Ia situasi yang dahsyat, ia kebuluran memaksa dasarnya. Mereka mengurung kita, kita tak diberikan makanan dan air, kebebasan dan hak-hak. Kami berjuang, kita yang masih hidup, kita menentang, kita cuba yang terbaik untuk terus hidup," kedua-dua adik-beradik kepada RT melalui Skype.
"Bagaimana kita boleh terus hidup seperti ini? Kita perlu mengambil risiko [bersuara]."
Setelah menghabiskan begitu banyak masa dilucutkan kebebasan, mereka sukar untuk memahami mengapa mereka telah dikunci.kan
"Raja dan anak-anaknya perlu menjawab soalan-soalan ini: Apa yang kami Didakwakan ? Apa sebenarnya jenayah kami? "
"Apakah jenayah 99 peratus wanita di negara ini, yang pada dasarnya menderita di bawah penjagaan lelaki? Seseorang penjaga lelaki boleh melakukan apa sahaja yang dia mahu; dia boleh menyekatkan segala-galanya dan dia ditinggalkan dengan apa-apa," kata mereka bagi pihak rakyat wanita kerajaan ultraconservative.
"Kami membuat kenyataan-kenyataan ini sekarang [untuk] mendapat hak kami, kebebasan kami."
Raja Abdullah Arab Saudi (Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (Reuters/Brendan Smialowski)
Kesihatan mereka perlahan-lahan semakin merosot. Rayuan ‘appeals’ yang lalu oleh ibu mereka, Alanoud Al-Fayez, untuk mendapat bantuan luar - termasuk dari pemimpin Barat seperti Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama - tidak membuahkan hasil.
Pentadbiran ini saja menutup mata, menurut beberapa pengkritik. Tetapi keadaan itu tidak boleh dibantu dengan merayu sama ada kepada kerajaan Saudi, kerana ia menge-kalkan bahawa puteri sempurna bebas untuk bergerak di sekitar bandar Jeddah, dengan syarat mereka ditemani oleh pengawal peribadi.
4 adik-beradik adalah di antara umur 38 dan 42, dengan sekurang-kurangnya satu dikatakan mengalami masalah psikologi.
Sebelum itu, dalam wawancara yang jarang berlaku dengan media asing, adik-beradik berkata, mereka tidak mempunyai apa-apa pasport atau ID dan raja juga telah meng-haramkan mana-mana lelaki untuk mendapatkan tangan anak-anak perempuannya dalam perkahwinan. Sepanjang masa mereka telah disimpan secara berasingan, kedua-dua elek-trik dan air telah menutup secara rawak, selalunya untuk hari - minggu.
Raja berusia 89 tahun dan bapa kepada 38 kanak-kanak, yang diberikan kepadanya oleh ramai isterinya, disenaraikan di kalangan lelaki yang paling kaya dan berpengaruh majalah Forbes, dengan kekayaan dianggarkan kira-kira US $ 17 bilion.
Puteri 'ibu, Al- Fayez, bercerai Raja Abdullah pada tahun 1980, akibatnya meninggalkan untuk ke London pada tahun 2001. Adik-beradik 'pengalaman pahit maka bermula sekitar tahun 2002. Kurang daripada satu tahun selepas ibu mereka melarikan diri, Abdullah mula menyeksa anak-anak perempuannya.
Adik-beradik memberitahu ibu mereka bahawa dia dadah ‘drug ged’ makanan dan air mereka untuk memastikan mereka jinak apabila mereka secara terbuka bercakap terhadap wanita yang haram ditahan dan diletakkan di wad mental.
Pengarah Institut Hal Ehwal Teluk, Ali Al-Ahmed, percaya keadaan hak asasi manusia di kubur di dalam kerajaan dan ditambah lagi dengan strategi politik dari luar, yang tujuan adalah untuk menyimpan mana-mana akhbar negatif di teluk, dan merupakan satu kuasa yang sama ada mengubah keadaan menjadi lebih baik atau menyimpan mereka kerana mereka.
"Ini adalah sifat monarki Saudi, yang menindas rakyat di negara mereka. Tetapi sekarang ia amat jelas bahawa mereka menindas ahli-ahli wanita mereka sendiri.
Raja yang digambarkan dalam media antarabangsa - dalam media Barat - sebagai seorang pembaharu, adalah penindas anak-anak perempuan sendiri; wanita dewasa yang sihat, yang telah diadakan selama 13 tahun . . . mereka yang sengaja di kebuluran, " Al-Ahmed memberitahu RT.
"Orang di luar negara pasti boleh bercakap dan menahan orang-orang yang bertang-gungjawab untuk dipertanggungjawabkan jenayah ini; iaitu raja Arab dan anak-anaknya . . . yang sengaja berbuat demikian."
‘What is Our Crime?’ Saudi princesses denied food
for over 60 days . . .
Deprived of their basic needs, the four Saudi royal princesses kept in 13-year isolation by their father, King Abdullah, have surpassed 60 days without food.
The monarch’s daughters fell out of their father’s favor for speaking out against the ill treatment of women in the Gulf kingdom. It is also believed that the king was angry at the girls' mother for not giving him a son.
Two of the princesses, Sahar and Jawaher, say they are being kept against their will in two mansions inside a royal compound in the city of Jeddah, along with their other two sisters – Maha and Hala. They say they have been deprived of food for over 60 days and have very little access to water.
“It’s a horrible situation, it’s a forced famine basically. They are confining us, depriving us of food and water, freedom and rights. We are struggling, we are surviving, we are resisting, we are trying our best to stay alive,” the two sisters told RT via Skype.
“How can we continue living like this? We have to take the risk of [speaking out]."
Having spent so much time deprived of freedom, they struggle to understand why they have been locked up.
“The king and his sons need to answer these questions: What are we charged with? What exactly is our crime?”
“What is the crime of 99 percent of women in this country, who are basically suffering under male guardianship? A male guardian can do whatever he wants; he can cut off everything and she is left with nothing,” they said on behalf of the female citizens of the ultraconservative kingdom.
“We are making these statements right now [in order to] gain our rights, our freedoms.”
Their health is slowly deteriorating. Past appeals by their mother, Alanoud Al-Fayez, for outside assistance - including from Western leaders like US President Barack Obama - have not come to fruition.
The administration is turning a blind eye, according to some critics. But the situation cannot be helped by appealing to the Saudi government either, as it maintains that the princesses are in fact perfectly free to move around the city of Jeddah, provided they are accompanied by bodyguards.
The four sisters are between the ages of 38 and 42, with at least one said to be suffering from psychological problems.
Earlier, in rare interviews with foreign media, the sisters said they don’t have any passports or IDs and the king has also forbidden any man to seek his daughters’ hands in marriage. The entire time they have been kept in isolation, both electricity and water have been shut off at random, often for days - even weeks.
The 89-year-old monarch and father of 38 children, given to him by multiple wives, is listed among Forbes magazine's most wealthy and influential men, with a fortune estimated at around US$17 billion.
The princesses' mother, Al-Fayez, divorced King Abdullah in 1980, consequently leaving for London in 2001. The sisters' ordeal then began around 2002. Less than one year after their mother escaped, Abdullah began tormenting his daughters.
The sisters told their mother that he drugged their food and water to keep them docile when they openly spoke against women being illegally detained and placed in mental wards.
The director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali Al-Ahmed, believes the grave human rights situation in the kingdom is compounded by a political strategy from the outside, whose purpose is to keep any negative press at bay, and is a force to either change things for the better or keep them as they are.
“This is the nature of the Saudi monarchy, who are oppressing the people in their country. But now it’s very clear that they’re oppressing their own female members. The king who is portrayed in the international media - in the Western media - as a reformer, is oppressing his own daughters; healthy adult women, who have been held for 13 years . . . they’re being starved deliberately,” Al-Ahmed told RT.
“People outside the country definitely can speak and hold those people who are responsible for this crime accountable; namely the Saudi king and his sons . . . who are deliberately doing this.”
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