; Whereas, on January 14, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had raised the case of the imprisoned activists with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; Whereas the 2017 Department of State Country Report on Human Rights Practices for Saudi Arabia stated that, Women continued to face significant discrimination under law and custom, and many remained uninformed about their rights , and women also faced discrimination in courts, where in most cases the testimony of one man equals that of two women ; Whereas serious impediments to women’s freedoms in Saudi Arabia remain, including a high prevalence of forced marriages, inequality in marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance, laws that prevents women from directly transmitting citizenship to their children, and the male guardianship system; Whereas, on April 21, 2005, Dr. Hatoon al-Fassi, an associate professor of history at King Saud University and prominent women’s rights activist currently detained by Saudi Arabia, testified before Congress that a Saudi woman is considered legally and socially a minor; she is confined to limited areas of educational opportunities; she is restricted in employment opportunities; there are no legal bodies where women could seek support; and finally, she is distanced from any decisionmaking position ; and Whereas the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114–328 ) authorizes the President to deny travel visas and freeze the United States-based assets of foreign government officials responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights : Now, therefore, be it