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WOMEN IN MALAYSIA AND MANY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD DRIVE AND OWN CARS AS A MATTER OF ROUTINE.
IN SAUDI ARABIA, WOMEN ARE BANNED FROM DRIVING. Saudi Arabia is the ONLY country in the world to do so.
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27 October 2013| last updated at 07:51PM
RIYADH: At least 16 Saudi women have received fines for taking the wheel on a day set by activists to defy the kingdom’s traditional ban on female driving, police and reports said Sunday.
Only few women braved official threats of punishment and drove on Saturday in response to an online campaign headlined “Women’s driving is a choice.” “Police stopped six women driving in Riyadh, and fined them 300 riyals ($80) each,” said the capital’s police deputy spokesman, Colonel Fawaz al-Miman.
Each of the women, along with her male guardian — who could be a father, husband, brother, uncle, or grandson — had to “sign a pledge to respect the kingdom’s laws,” Miman told AFP.
In Jeddah, police also fined two women for driving, according to the Red Sea city’s police spokesman, Nawaf al-Bouq
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Published on Oct 26, 2013
Activists have begun posting videos of women in Saudi Arabia driving cars, as their one-day campaign to defy a ban on female drivers in the conservative kingdom gets under way.
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Published on Oct 12, 2013
Saudi women’s rights activists have posted to the internet photographs and video clips of themselves driving cars, defying the country’s ban on female drivers two days after members of the influential Shoura Council called for an end to the prohibition. The photos and footage showed women driving on the busy streets of the capital Riyadh.
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26 October 2013| last updated at 05:42PM
Saudi women’s driving protest kicks off with video
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Activists have posted a video of a woman in Saudi Arabia driving a car, as their campaign urging women in the ultraconservative kingdom to defy a ban on getting behind the wheel kicks off.
A video posted Saturday on the official Arabic YouTube account of the driving campaign shows a woman identified as May Al Sawyan driving in Riyadh. She wears sunglasses and her hair is covered by the traditional black headscarf worn by Saudi women, but her face is otherwise visible.
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