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Unspecified threats of punishment made, although there's no official law on the books.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are barred from driving......


CBC News

October 26, 2013

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have stepped up a warning to women not to defy a ban on female drivers by taking part in a mass driving protest on Saturday.

The country's interior minister has toughened the Saudi government line on the women drivers' campaign, saying anyone breaking the law is likely to face unspecified punishment.

Badawi Al Rasheed, a Saudi academic and expert on women's rights doesn't think many women will flout the ban, because of worries of their safety.

"We have heard there are counter campaigns to actually drive the women away from the streets, either by harming them or by crashing their cars," she said.

However, a Saudi woman said she got behind the wheel Saturday and drove to the grocery store without being stopped or harassed by police.

Despite warnings by police and ultraconservatives in the kingdom against defying the ban, at least 60 women have successfully driven.

Saudi professor and campaigner Aziza Youssef said his group had received 13 videos and another 50 phone messages from women showing or claiming they had driven. She said they have no way to verify the messages.

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Powerful clerics who hold far-reaching influence over the kingdom's ruling monarchy enforce the ban. Clerics warn that "licentiousness" will spread if women drive.

Activist suggests she was followed

Women's rights advocate Madeha Al Ajroush drove in similar campaigns in 1990 and 2011, and was going to drive again on Saturday, but decided against it.

She explained why in an interview with CBC News.

"At 8:00 in the morning, I called my girlfriend to meet her at the coffee shop, so we could go to a safe place and drive. To our surprise, we found four cars that are white, small [with] tinted [windows] and we didn't feel so comfortable about meeting behind the wheel, so we went around town trying to lose them and we were not successful.

"Finally, we went to a mall in Riyadh, waited and drank coffee, and figured out what to do.

"I figured what I would do is go to the toy shop and buy a small yellow car and then go to them and say, 'Hello, today is October 26th and I want to give this to you as a gift.'"

"So I did that, and they looked at me puzzled, surprised, and they grabbed the car from me and I just walked away."

"As we speak now there is another white car that is also tinted outside my door and I don't know why they're there. I haven't committed a crime," she said.

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Posted: at 27-10-2013 05:38 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

These people and their mentality !

Posted: at 27-10-2013 04:06 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

I wish these people were never on this world stupid .

Posted: at 27-10-2013 04:37 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Dis is definately nt region its jst a law they made 4 themselves

Posted: at 27-10-2013 04:44 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Muslims.......backward mentality.

Posted: at 27-10-2013 05:28 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Na waooo

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Posted: at 27-10-2013 08:09 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

the saudi government are so backward

Posted: at 27-10-2013 08:37 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Moslems just need to eat more pork, so that they can start thinking right. weird set of humans.

Posted: at 27-10-2013 09:04 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

i see

Posted: at 27-10-2013 10:12 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac

The women can revolt by refusing the men some ..................

Posted: at 28-10-2013 02:05 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac