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Loujain al-Hathloul

لجين الهذلول
Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Saudi women's rights activist and the most internationally recognized figure of the campaign that culminated in the 2018 lifting of the driving ban. Detained May 2018, weeks before the ban officially ended; held nearly three years, the early months including documented torture and sexual harassment. Released February 2021 with a five-year travel ban and probation. She has continued to advocate from inside Saudi Arabia.

Country
Saudi Arabia
Party
Independent / unaligned
Role
Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Loujain al-Hathloul (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Loujain al-Hathloul [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/loujain-hathloul
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Loujain al-Hathloul." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/loujain-hathloul.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-loujain-hathloul,
  title     = {{Loujain al-Hathloul}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/loujain-hathloul},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.