According to relatives – women, 25-year-old al-Hathlul Ludżain and 33-year-old Mays al-Ammoudia, to be judged not for driving, but opinions on the subject delivered in the Internet. Anonymous sources from the environment of women say that the investigation apparently revolved around their activities in social networks.
The younger woman was arrested on December 1, when she tried to take their car into neighboring Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates (using the exposed by UAE driving license). Ammoudia was then arrested, the Saudi journalist living in the UAE, which moved to the border to help her friend.
On Twitter both activist keeps a total of almost 360 thousand. humans. Ammoudia launched a YouTube channel, which addresses the issue of the ban on driving for Saudi women.
In October, dozens of Saudi women have put their photos on the Internet at the wheel. Ministry of the Interior stated that for persons posing a threat to “social cohesion” apply provided steps “with full rigor.”
The ban held by Saudi Arabia, which applies particularly harsh, wahabicka interpretation of Islam, is informal, but actually driving seems to be there only to men. Similar restrictions do not exist in any other country of the Muslim world, including in the conservative neighbors Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf.
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