Please help me protect my freedom of speech
Dear all,
I need your help and support to protect my freedom of speech.
I humbly ask you to donate whatever you can, or share this link with as many as you can.
My name is Danah Almayouf.
I am a Saudi woman activist. I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and left when I was 26 years old. I became an activist unintentionally when I started speaking out about the oppressive regime and the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia. I was speaking of a personal experience, and suddenlyI realized I was representing so many women like me, who lived a life of fear and oppression, but unlike me, they couldn't speak out. I had the fortune to have left Saudi Arabia by then and so I had the privilege and the freedom of speech as well as the freedom from fear. And so I vowed to be the voice of the oppressed and the speaker of truth.
One small side of my activism was to seek the truth, for my past self and the men and women who are or were in my shoes, I created an account on instagram that is called @hypocrisy_alert to shed light on and/or protest the hypocrisy and double standards in the Middle East. I did this because people in Saudi can get arrested for this privilege of merely speaking out. I post about a lot of people, exposing the hypocrisy of internet personas, especially the ones that profit off of people's insecurities, while simultaneously propagating a harmful image or ideas of sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia .. etc.
I target a lot of fake personalities, of all, only one person (Model roz)could not handle being exposed, nor offered any apology for making homophobic comments.
instead, she wants to take me to court for defaming her! She claims that she lost opportunities because I exposed her homophobia and thus brands decided to drop her.
Not only she denies having said those vile things (please see videos attached below), she also wants to silence me and people like me in order to keep profiting off the backs of unsuspecting people and companies.
Since I was served, it was no coincidence that I have become suddenly subjected to online and offline non-stop harassment and attacks. I have been stalked, trolled, accused that I am a human-trafficker, subjected to death threats, and much more abuse than you can imagine. That's precisely why I strongly believe the Saudi government is behind this lawsuit in order to silence my political activism (which is my main area of activism). It is disguised as a defamation lawsuit but the only thing they are after is to intimidate and scare me into silence.
I won't be silenced. I won't be intimidated. My fight is for me and for everyone who is silenced or afraid. I have the privilege to live in a free country and I will not give up this privilege.
I need to collect the $10,000 retainer fee to hire a lawyer to fight this lawsuit.
So I need your help with finances and support. I hope you can donate or share as much as you can.
I will greatly appreciate it.
Links:
The video of the homophobic statement: https://www.instagram.com/p/Brh4KZbBI8c/?igshid=o7pua2zaxr5t
In 2017, I appeared in a CNN documentary about women in Saudi Arabia that caused a big backlash. The participants in the documentary have been called traitors by the Saudi media.
The link to the interview:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/world/saudi-women-asylum-seekers-us/index.html
In 2018, I participated in the media again speaking about my fears here in the United States. The piece was with PBS. Here is the link:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/these-saudi-citizens-in-the-u-s-criticized-their-government-now-they-live-in-fear
