Breitbart.com reports: “The UK Guardian on Wednesday published a report about hundreds of young Saudi Arabian women being held in secretive facilities — variously described as ‘care homes,’ ‘jails,’ ‘shelters,’ and ‘prisons’ — where they face brutal punishment for disobeying their husbands or male family members.

The official name of these facilities is Dar al-Reaya, which means ‘care home’ in Arabic. The system was established in the 1960s to rehabilitate young female criminals. Activists dedicated to exposing the Dar al-Reaya system, such as ALQST for Human Rights, say the care homes soon became a convenient dumping ground for ‘disobedient’ women, who could be consigned to the squalid and abuse facilities at the whim of their husbands or male guardians.

‘It is a prison, not a care home, as they like to call it. They call each other by numbers. ‘Number 35, come here.’ When one of the girls shared her family name, she got lashes. If she doesn’t pray, she gets lashes. If she is found alone with another woman she gets lashes and is accused of being a lesbian. The guards gather and watch when the girls are being lashed,’ activist Sarah al-Yahia told the Guardian…”