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After 1,001 days in prison, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was released Wednesday, members of her family said, ending a detention that had become a public relations millstone for …

Hathloul, 31, was arrested in a May 2018 sweep that targeted well-known opponents of the kingdom’s since-rescinded law barring women from driving. She told her family she had been tortured …