now the family a saudi woman's rights activist luzhin al has says she's rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison she was offered freedom if she recorded a video statement declaring that she hasn't been tortured in custody hatley was arrested more than a year ago and long with at least a dozen other activists rights groups a half lou and 2 others were held in solitary confinement for months and subjected to physical abuse international human rights lawyer toby cadman says despite some reforms saudi women are still treated like 2nd class citizens. i think one of the one of the things that we're also seeing now is more and more women fleeing saudi arabia because of the draconian guardianship laws and various other group represents a number of saudi women who have sort of to flee from saudi arabia and you are asked these women has the situation changed since this this great announcement of reform with women being able to drive and even being allowed to go to the cinema those changes have had no significant impact and even what we're seeing now is that the guardianship rules a