Unsurprisingly it's not reported out here, the only people who know about it (other than ex-pats) are those who read twitter and, as mentioned above a few times, Saudi culture is totally and utterly "family over individual" based to the exclusion of all else so the general response is less about her welfare and more about "how could she do this to her family". Culturally they don't/can't understand why all the fuss is being made "considering the amount disrespect she has brought upon her family/tribe with her actions".
The culture is starting, slowly, to change in less obvious ways, especially with the youth who all have access to the web and therefore access to a wider amount of info but as the core principals of family and faith are still absolutely driven into them from birth so it'll be a long while (multiple generations) before we could expect any "enlightening" to occur.
We don't, we need them for defence contracts and use of their military bases as staging bases for our own forces to bomb/infiltrate freedom in the middle East and keep tabs on both China & Russia
Just to clarify, we don't. They kicked all "foreign" forces out of the country straight after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was the only way Saudi would agree to being used that way by the US. The only thing left is a very small handful (<100) who are helping with training the Saudis, from pilots teaching them how to fly to folks helping with intel from/about Yemen. Of course what the Saudi's actually do with that info is upto them (and it's usually an utter cluster**** because they seem things through a much different ideological lens to the trainers) but some of our people are trying very hard to steer them away from the baffling ideas they have about what's a "correct" thing to attack regardless of whether it's civilian or not.