Saudi authorities detained eight people, including two dual US-Saudi citizens, supporting women's rights or linked to previously arrested activists, The Guardian reported. 

According to the source, those detained include a pregnant woman and seven men, among them two US-Saudi nationals.

The detained people include “Badr al-Ibrahim, a writer and physician, and Salah al-Haidar, whose mother is the prominent women’s rights activist Aziza al-Yousef, who was recently temporarily released from prison,” the source noted.