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- Saudi Women Furious At Gang-rape Ruling
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Saudi Women Now Being Monitored By Electronic Tracking System
(AFP) – Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together.
Manal al-Sherif, who became the symbol of a campaign launched last year urging Saudi women to defy a driving ban, began spreading the information on Twitter, after she was alerted by a couple.
The husband, who was travelling with his wife, received a text message from the immigration authorities informing him that his wife had left the international airport in Riyadh.
“The authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said columnist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the “state of slavery under which women are held” in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male guardian, who must give his consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
- Saudi "morality Police" Chief Says Ban On Women Driving Not Part Of Sharia
Yeah, right, that's what he says: Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters on Thursday. Sheikh Abdulatif...
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Saudi king gives women right to vote (HurriyetDaily) -Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said on Sunday women in the conservative Islamic kingdom will have the right to join the advisory Shura Council as full members and participate in future municipal...
- Human Rights Watch: Saudi Women Treated Like Children
This is a major admission for a liberal "Human Rights" organization. I would go a step further and say that Saudi Arabian women are treated as SLAVES. The fact that they don't have the right to make basic choices about education, whom to marry, when...
- Mideast's First Women-only Hotel Opens In Saudi Arabia...mmmmmh
The Middle East's first women-only hotel was officially opened in the capital of the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, secretary general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism, attended...
- Saudi Women Furious At Gang-rape Ruling
DUBAI - A recent Saudi court ruling sentencing a woman to six months in jail and 200 lashes despite being gang-raped highlights the injustice faced by women in the ultra-conservative kingdom, women rights activists said Well, since the punishment was...