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Saudi women take on oppressive guardianship system
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-women-take-oppressive-guardianship-system

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Fully veiled Saudi women browse the annual International Book Exhibition in the capital Riyadh on March 4, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Fayez Nureldine) Fully veiled Saudi women browse the annual International Book Exhibition in the capital Riyadh on March 4, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Fayez Nureldine)

Confined for years to the margins of society by a repressive and dictatorial government, #Saudi_Arabia’s women’s rights advocates continue to revolt against gender segregation and “absolute male guardianship.”

Rana Harbi

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#Saudi_Arabia arrests woman driving father to hospital
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-arrests-woman-driving-father-hospital

A Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia for trying to drive her father to hospital, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Sunday, a week after Saudi women protested against a ban on female drivers. Kuwaiti women are free to drive in their country and enjoy far more rights than those in Saudi Arabia, who are not allowed to travel abroad, open a bank account or work without permission from a male relative. read (...)

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#Saudi_Arabia fines 16 women for driving
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-fines-16-women-driving

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. read (...)

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Driving damages women’s ovaries : Saudi cleric
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/driving-damages-womens-ovaries-saudi-cleric

One of #Saudi_Arabia's top clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the medieval-styled kingdom’s male-only driving rules. In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, one of the 21 members of the Senior Council of Scholars, said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put “reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions.” read (...)

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