Performer Alicia Keys projects a powerful position on women’s rights, hosting a regular Women to Women summit and posting inspirationally on Instagram on Friday for International Women’s Day. He added: “Alicia Keys and Pharrell Williams should not be performing in Saudi Arabia. It’s a dictatorship that persecutes women, LGBTs and religious and ethnic minorities. “It is total hypocrisy for Saudi Arabia to host Alicia Keys for an International Women’s Day event when the regime jails advocates for women’s equality,” said Tatchell. Last year, she also held the Women to Women summit there in the city of AlUla. Marking International Women’s Day on social media Keys said: “I want you to remove any ideas in your mind that you are not going to create the destiny that you believe in for yourself.

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