The United States urged ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to review cases of “prisoners of conscience” and lift travel bans and other restrictions imposed on women’s rights activists previously released from jail. The rare U.S. intervention on the matter came with U.S.-Saudi ties strained over a range of issues including the Yemen war, the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, and energy markets. Iceland and Luxembourg also zeroed in on the Saudi human rights record during a debate held on Tuesday at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. U.S. Amb…

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