Eman al-Nafjan

Childhood and education Al-Nafjan was born in Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a senior Saudi military officer. She earned a bachelor's degree in English at what at the time was the University of Riyadh (KSU). She worked as a school teacher and later a university teaching assistant. She earned a master's degree in Teaching English as a foreign language from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Her blog became one of the most popular Saudi blogs read internationally. Al-Nafjan blogged about topics that were taboo in Saudi Arabia at the time, including criticising male-guardianship as an "abuse system", opposing child marriage and interventions by the religious police, and documenting internet surveillance by Saudi authorities. In October 2013, al-Nafjan was arrested while filming a woman driving. In September 2016, al-Nafjan signed a petition as part of the campaign against the Saudi male guardianship system.

In November, 2018, she was apparently being held in the Dhahban Central Prison.

In March 2019, al-Nafjan was released on bail along with some of the other crackdown detainees.