Five Saudi women drivers arrested, says activist | World news | The Guardian
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At least five Saudi women have been arrested after defying the kingdom’s ban on women drivers, an activist has said.
For the past two weeks Saudi women have been driving through the capital, Riyadh, and other cities in a challenge to the ban.
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The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has praised the protesters, while stressing they are acting on behalf of their own rights and not at the behest of outsiders like herself.
The Saudi protests have put the Obama administration, and Clinton in particular, in a difficult position, with Saudi Arabia being a close US ally. The administration supports greater freedom for Saudi women but is increasingly reliant on Saudi authorities to provide stability and continuity in the Middle East and Gulf amid uprisings taking place across the Arab world.
Arrivé au dernier paragraphe de son article, le journaliste se résout à écrire quelque chose qui n’a rigoureusement aucun sens : « to provide stability and continuity in the Middle East and Gulf », mais qu’est-ce que ça veut dire ?
