A Saudi Arabian woman was reportedly killed and buried in the desert by her brothers because she had Snapchat, their sister claims.
The sister, Manal, said her brothers, Ahmed and Nasser, killed their sister, Qamar, 26, after learning she had created a Snapchat account.
Manal made the shocking allegations via social media, in a series of now-deleted tweets.
Days later, she posted a photo of a bloodstained hand mark, believed to be her sister’s, and posted a video of her mother screaming after Qamar’s body was found.
After a brief social media hiatus, Manal returned and tweeted, “Hello, I’m fine and left the file for the law. “
But after his brief disappearance and seemingly changed rhetoric, many users feared that Manal had been silenced by the authorities and was in danger, leading to the retweet of the hashtag #SaveManalQamarsSister on the platform.
One user said, “Stop silencing Saudi women, you cannot promote a false image of empowering women in Arabia by forcing women to sign pledges not to spread the truth on social media. “
Her mother also circulated a widely circulated video clip on Twitter, where she is seen pleading for Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his help in locating her daughter’s killers.
In the clip, she says, “Does anyone know Mohammed bin Salman? Can anyone reach Mohammed bin Salman?
“They killed my daughter… she was killed without justification. “
Amid public outrage over Manal’s alleged treatment, Saudi authorities confirmed they had made two arrests in connection with Qamar’s death earlier this week.
They issued a statement which read: “The security services of the Al-Kharj governorate police received on January 19 a report from a citizen on the disappearance of a 26-year-old young woman.
“The results of the preliminary investigation procedures show that his body was found in a desert, 10 km from the governorate. Two citizens in their thirties were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the incident which caused his disappearance and death ”
Cases similar to Qamar’s occur “every day” in Saudi Arabia, according to female activists in the country.
Lina al-Hathloul, whose activism of her sister put her in jail, said: “I am angry and tired of reading such news that occurs every day in Saudi Arabia. “
Lina’s sister Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested in May 2018 along with several other activists just weeks before the historic lifting of a decades-long ban on female drivers in Arabia – a right she had long campaigned for .
She was jailed for almost six years last month, in a case that has drawn international criticism from rights groups and governments.
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