Pompeo urges release of US activists for Saudi women's rights

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he has pressed Saudi Arabia to release US citizens detained in a crackdown on women's rights activists in the conservative kingdom. "We've urged them to make a better decision, saying that those folks need to be released," Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Pompeo declined to name the US citizens detained by Saudi Arabia.

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