The 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement and the Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign and of their supporters during 2018[1] and 2019.[2] The crackdown[3][4][5] was described in June 2018 by a United Nations special rapporteur as taking place "on a wide scale across" Saudi Arabia; the special rapporteur called for the "urgent release" of the detainees.[3] Six of the women arrestees were tortured,[6][7] some in the presence of Crown Prince advisor Saud al-Qahtani.[8]