GENEVA (Reuters) - Two South African sisters who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, initially without charge, described their ordeal on Tuesday and said they had brought a complaint to the United Nations.
Yumna Desai, a former English teacher at the University of Ha'il in northern Saudi Arabia, said she had been held at Dhaban prison in Jeddah from 2015 to 2018. A year and a half after her arrest, she was told she had been charged with unspecified "cyber crimes".
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