Driving your car, 5 Women in Saudi Arrested

A woman driving a car in Riyadh Saudi Arabia (AP Photo/Change.org)

VIVAnews -Sharia Police captured five Saudi Arabia women who are caught driving cars. According to Saudi media, this is the first time Sharia police in the Kingdom take action decisively since tens of women opposed the ban on driving on 17 June.

According to the daily pages of the New York Times, the arrests were taking place Tuesday, June 28, 2011, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second largest city. The arrest was revealed by Saudi Women for Driving, an informal coalition among women activists Saudi women's rights.

"When the Saudi police feel that anchoring the women drivers it will stop what has championed women's rights movement is the largest in the history of Arabia, they were wrong," the Coalition statement, published via the internet at Change.org pages.

"On the contrary, that detention will encourage more women to drive myself as resistance over the arbitrariness of our basic rights," continued the statement.

Saudi journalist Jamal, Banoon, reported one incident of arrest through her account on Facebook. In the incident, four Saudi women in the District of Al Aroos Dorat, Jeddah, Sharia police captured because caught driving a car. They were then taken to the criminal investigation unit.

The arrest occurred in the evening while a woman is seen driving alone in the center of the city of Jeddah. He then besieged by four police cars and eventually arrested. According to Saudi News page, his car was impounded SABQ.

The fifth woman to sign a pledge to no longer driving your car. According to a blogger named Eman Al Irop's work, they have all been removed. "This will not make us afraid," said Eman.

On 17 June, the female activists staged a campaign across Arabia, demanding that they be driving your car. The campaign that followed 42 women. They claimed to be inspired by the popular resistance in Egypt and Tunisia, which toppled the regime in their respective countries.

The campaign took place a month after a mother in Saudi named Manal Al-Sharif was arrested by the police car driving end of Sharia since last May.

According to the law in Saudi Arabia, women in the country should not be left home alone without being accompanied by men who had family connections with the question. The Saudi Government actually does not specifically forbid women to drive cars. However, Oligospermia in the country calling for women in the car should be disetiri by man. (umi)

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