Saudi women call new day of defiance against driving ban

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Saudi women call new day of defiance against driving ban
Published September 22, 2013
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RIYADH (AFP) ? Saudi women activists have called for a new day of defiance next month of the long-standing ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
An online petition entitled "Oct 26th, driving for women" had on Sunday gathered more than 5,800 signatories, as activists try again to push authorities to end the unique ban.


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Fine for car owners in Saudi Arabia for allowing women to drive
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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Fine for car owners in Saudi Arabia for allowing women to drive
Prohibits women from driving in Saudi Arabia.
(Reuters) - A Saudi newspaper said on Wednesday that the Saudi traffic police freed traffic violations to the owners of six cars led girls in defiance of the ban on women driving in the Kingdom.

And freed traffic fines in the eastern region coincided with a campaign called defenders activists for women's rights to organize late next month to challenge the driving ban on women in Saudi Arabia.

Middle newspaper said, quoting a police spokesman as saying that the total fines amounted to 5,400 riyals ($ 1400) and he was liberated irregularities due "to give the vehicle to someone who is qualified to lead."

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Ellen Knickmeyer is located inside Saudi Arabia:

Ellen Knickmeyer @EllenKnickmeyer 5h
#Saudi blocks the online petition page of a grassroots campaign for granting women the right to drive.

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Last Update: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 KSA 00:10 - GMT 21:10
Three Saudi Shura council women urge female drive ban lifted
Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Umm Ibrahim sits behind the wheel of her vehicle as she drives in Riyadh, an act that is banned in Saudi Arabia June 21, 2011. (Reuters)


AFP, Riyadh
Three female members of Saudi Arabia's Shura Consultative Council filed a recommendation on Tuesday that a ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom be lifted, one of them said.

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Manea open file 'women's leadership' in the Shura


Shura Council yesterday saw the women's claims to grant women the right to drive a car (Middle)
10/09/2013 - ISSUE 675



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The session saw the Shura Council regular 48 yesterday مساجلة between his boss, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sheikh and Dr. Haya impregnable, when asked her during her intervention during the debate on the report of the Ministry of Transport not to ?waste of time?, having put a to the subject of women driving the car and explain what ails on more than one level at sites different result not allow her leadership, although there is no document illegal or irregular prevents women from it.
asked the President of the Al-Sheikh: What is the relationship of this report of the Ministry of Transport?, she replied impregnable: freedom of movement for women.
individual, saying: Have you been banned and the Ministry of Transport that?. She replied: This report is the closest and most appropriate. But he asked her to move to another point even taken advantage of time and told her: report Tnaakecan ministry in front of you. Commented: Generally made a recommendation for additional recommendation of the Council to enable women to drive a car as there is no legal or regulatory violation in accordance with Islamic law and regulations in force in the country.

Dr Ahmad Zeili the ministry pointed out that succeeded in building roads and bridges, the construction of the tunnels, but they did not succeed in land and sea transport, and wrote in the report with them does not exceed one page compared to what is written in last year's report. He also asked to address the situation buses ?line town? what caused the accident.
then Council discussed the report of the Institute of Public Administration, as demanded Dr. Hamda Anzi Institute of non-discrimination in making its programs between the government and private sector, and the establishment of branches Women's Institute in the territories, and peace and functional for trainers . Dr Mustafa Al Idrisi to be the only women's branch in Riyadh not only meets the requirements of less than 10% of the needs of applicants. As Dr. Mona Al Mushayt, فطالبت Women's branches in the major cities, and said that the institute has not kept pace with major developments in the Kingdom, and its does not meet the urgent need for training and staff development.

The Council then proceeded to discuss the report of the Committee on Administration and Human Resources on the annual performance report of the General Organization for Social Insurance for the fiscal year 1433/1434 AH, where the Commission concluded to study the possibility of increasing the minimum pension of retirees depending on the high standard of living in the Kingdom and the possible alternatives for financing, also demanded to take measures to Elimination of on placebo employment cases in coordination with the relevant authorities.

Said Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Atwi The Corporation's requirement to achieve retired 60 years to combine services from retirement arbitrary decision Foundation, pointed to significant discounts between the Foundation and the Ministry of Finance, and considered the victim citizen and student solve it. Another member warned of Saudization phantom build statistics program ranges. He said: It is not reasonable that women are employed in the construction business only through fictitious Saudization that harm the institution of social insurance. He called to find other solutions more practical to stimulate employment sectors and reduce unemployment.
also called Suleiman Hamid corrects the program ?bands? said: According to program data, there are 104 thousand women registered in the construction sector, and more than 700 thousand young men and women were employed in the program, and in fact says Most of the placebo, and here lies the danger in adopting and Ministry of Labour and those responsible on the fake numbers and leads to serious decisions to postpone important decisions.

Hanan al-Ahmadi: ?transport? behind the loss of half of workers' salaries

A member of the Shura Council, Dr Hanan al-Ahmadi The Ministry of Transport has ignored for many years suffering women of transport; It is not available to now what could be called a system of public transportation in most cities, Saudi Arabia, the dilemma faced by all households as a breadwinner to work as a driver for connecting family members to spend all their needs. Noting that studies have reported that transportation costs consume a large part of the employee's salary up to or more than half in some jobs, this is not what ails families of endless problems with the drivers effort and money drains and cause psychological stress and logical concerns.

She stated that the Ministry of Transport and others ignore the continuous drain the blood parameters on the roads and did not move a muscle until it became commonplace; does not face any other functional group the risk of death on the road as wholesale faced by teachers who attend a victim of poor roads, vehicles and drivers. She said: yesterday near was some joke on the scene of a group of women المناضلات pay سيارتهن after them stuck in the sands of the desert!. And said: These women did not leave their homes and did not Arkpn Annan danger for the well-being and self-fulfillment, but Dfthen the need for action and their families had to accept the difficult conditions of livelihood.

Ahmadi drew several questions to the Ministry of Transport virtue they are now involved in planning, studies and the organization of the transport sector, including:

What are the solutions provided by millions of women citizens and residents who do not have a safe means of transport to move with dignity and freedom within cities?
What are the solutions presented by the thousands of teachers who Arkpn danger every day to get to their schools in remote areas?
What are the measures taken to regulate the taxi industry to become a decent clean, safe and acceptable to use women?
What efforts are made by the transport to study the issue of women driving the car from organizational aspects?.
She concluded her speech, saying: The problem of transportation for women is a reality will not disappear disregard and neglect, but will worsen, and future generations of women will not accept the arguments and justifications accepted by the generations that preceded it, will not تكفيها half-solutions, so I ask the ministry in the absence of transportation safe for women and the absence of the right driving a car, that are looking for comprehensive solutions to empower women of their right to freedom of movement, including the study of ways to provide public transportation and taxis are safe and appropriate, in addition to research and study ways to enable Saudi women from driving, including taking into account all the caveats security and social made hesitate community in bringing this case in the past, and taking into account that this is a personal right of women and their families, take advantage of it if they want a non-binding and those who do not want to, from Samaha Islamic law, which did not prevent women from exercising this right.

This article was published in the printed newspaper Asharq No. (675) Page (4) on

http://www.alsharq.net.sa/2013/10/09/966624

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Opinion by Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, former editor of Middle East newspaper and general manager of Al-Arabiya:

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" Also, do not forget that's no longer logical, that the government sends tens of thousands of girls to study in the great universities abroad, such as Harvard and Cambridge, and then the government prevent them from driving the car at home!"

Alrashed@asharqalawsat.com

http://beta.aawsat.com/home/article/5791

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A woman is allowed to report the news from the Hajj.

Saudi correspondent for the first time in the Hajj
جمانة خوجة
Jumana Khoja
Riyadh (dpa) -:14/10/2013 00:32:46
Anchorwoman seemed Arabia Jumana Khoja for the first time on the screen of Al-Arabiya of the holy sites, to talk about the atmosphere in Mina before pilgrims flocked to it to spend a day perfusion.

And prepared Jumana, as explained on the screen, a report on the role of medical staff women Saudi Arabia in the service of the pilgrims, is scheduled to continue Arabia Jumana Khoja to emerge in the coming days within the program "morning of the Arab," and through various publications in news reports Field, This is the first experiment a Saudi reporter to cover the Hajj season of the holy sites directly.

http://www.alriyadh.com/net/article/875393

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lol futile puppetmaster protest.


Saudi Arabia, angered over Mideast, declines Security Council seat


Minister of Foreign Affairs for Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 28, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton
By Angus McDowall
RIYADH | Fri Oct 18, 2013 2:24pm BST
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented show of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said on Friday it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Council.

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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/18/uk-saudi-securitycouncil-idUKBRE99H06Q20131018

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Saudi government promises strong response against peaceful protests for women driving.

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Interior: marches under the pretext of women's leadership will face all ?strength?

Riyadh - SPA:23/10/2013 17:11:06
Spokesman security Interior Ministry that, further to what is being said in social networks and some of the media from invitations to gatherings and rallies are banned under the pretext of women driving a car, where the regulations of the Kingdom prohibit all prejudice peace social and open sedition and responds to the illusions with dreams sick of biased, intruders and predators, so the Ministry of Interior to confirm to all that the competent authorities will proceed to apply the regulations against violators all firmly and strength is estimated at the same time was expressed by many citizens of the importance of maintaining security and stability and away from everything that calls for the band and the classification society and God Crown success.

http://www.alriyadh.com/net/article/877953

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Saudis warned of backing women drivers online
Officials say cyber-laws banning political dissent could apply to anyone supporting women driving campaign.
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2013 12:21

Saudi Arabia is the world's only country that bans women from driving [AFP]
Saudi officials have warned online activists from backing protests planned by women challenging the male-only driving rules in the kingdom.

Friday's edition of the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat quoted Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Turki al-Faisal as saying cyber-laws banning political dissent could apply to anyone supporting the women driving campaign.

Conviction can bring up to five-year prison sentences


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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/10/saudi-warns-online-backers-women-drivers-20131025112217492293.html

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Saudi activists cancel women 'drive-in' plan
A planned driving campaign has been cancelled after the government threatened legal action against the women involved.
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2013 17:39


Activists pressing to end Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving have dropped plans for a "drive-in" on Saturday after threats of legal action and have opted instead for an open-ended campaign.

"Out of caution and respect for the interior ministry's warnings ... we are asking women not to drive tomorrow and to change the initiative from an October 26 campaign to an open driving campaign," activist Najla al-Hariri told AFP news agency on Friday.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/10/saudi-activists-cancel-women-drive-plan-2013102517635525438.html

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Give Saudi women the right to drive
By Rothna Begum, Special to CNN
updated 1:25 PM EDT, Thu October 24, 2013

Editor's note: Rothna Begum covers women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch. Follow her on Twitter @Rothna_Begum.

(CNN) -- This weekend, Saudi women will once again defy their nation's long-standing driving ban and get behind the wheel, facing harassment, intimidation and arrest.

On Saturday, the "Women2Drive" campaign will renew Saudi women's demand to exercise their right to drive. In many parts of Saudi Arabia, women are already driving and publishing online videos of themselves in the act. Interestingly, footage has also surfaced of Saudi men driving by and giving the thumbs-up sign to show their support...

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Saturday, October 26, 2013

#Women2Drive is back Again : No Woman , No Drive They say in #KSA

The fantastic ladies of Saudi Arabia are doing it again. The Saudi women decided to take the wheel hitting the road trying to make it a reality in the kingdom : For Women to drive their cars.
Yes today the Saudi ladies are doing it organizing a campaign to drive in the streets of the kingdom posting photos and videos to encourage other ladies and to prove that they did it.
Here are videos taken for videos behind the wheel in different cities in KSA.

A lady driving her car in Jeddah


A girl in Ha?il driving on October 26 , 2013


Nesreen drove her husband to get breakfast earlier today , I do not know where exactly


A lady driving in Al Hasa


Activist May El Sawayan driving her car to a grocery near her home in Riyadh accompanied with a female journalist


Eman Al Nafjan aka @Saudi woman drives her car in Riyadh

Here is Eman?s twitter account. Here is also October 26 to Drive Campaign on YouTube also on Instagram.
Here are some intagram snapshots for the ladies behind the wheel.

According to Saudi tweeps women drove their cars in Riyadh , Ha?il , Al Hasa , Jeddah. Some are saying that not less than 50 women drove today. I know it is a small number still big changes always have small beginning.
Some tweeps also say that there are some ladies who drove to their work today. According to security forces more than 13 women ?Ages between 22- 44 years old? were stopped by police and secret police. Their cars have been confiscated and their male custodians said to the authorities that they would not do that again !!!Five women were arresting in Riyadh and signed a pledge not to drive again. I hope that they forget that pledge soon and hit the road once again.
I respect so much how some Saudi men are supporting this right in this macho society of KSA now and I respect more how some of them are not shy of declaring this support publicly.
Here is a Saudi young man teaching his beautiful mother "as he said" how to drive earlier today.
Above those Saudi men Alaa Wardi and Hisham Fageeh as well the rest of Telfaz 11 team for making the headlines in social media worldwide with their own ?No woman, no drive?
This is a satire song by Telfaz 11 team is the first of its kind about this important social issue. Of course I know that the whole team now is under the surveillance of the security in KSA now.

No woman, no drive

With my all due respect how come the Kingdom is trying to appear the fighter of the Arab world against radicalism when it does not allow the ladies to drive cars !? I am speaking about that huge campaign sponsored by the KSA in Arab media against radicalism. Is not banning ladies from basic right like driving their own cars radicalism !?
I can not find any logic or religious reason on why the women can not drive when from 1400 years ago in the same land women used to ride camels and horses not to mention fight besides the prophet himself in the battlefield !!
Needless to say I am reading strange comments from those opposing this basic right online that makes so angry and sick.
By the way I would like to thank the fantastic lady Manal El Sherif and other ladies who hit the road from two years ago. A journey of Thousand miles starts with hitting the car pedal for a small trip to the grocery sometimes.

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Apparently 12 women arrested for driving yesterday in Saudi Arabia.

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Women's track when you publish excerpts of driving
Adjust 12 driver خالفن the system in Riyadh, Jeddah and Eastern
The presence of traffic patrols contributed to control the movement of cars in Riyadh yesterday. Photo: Saad Anzi - "economic"
The presence of traffic patrols contributed to control the movement of cars in Riyadh yesterday. Photo: Saad Anzi - "economic"

Follow-up: Faisal Al-Bishi and Abdul peace الثميري from Riyadh - T-Saadi from Jeddah - Hamid Ruwaily of Dammam

Arrested by the security authorities, yesterday, 12 Saudi خالفن regulations and instructions that require preventing women from driving in Saudi Arabia, where the seized ten women يقدن cars in both Riyadh and Eastern, by five in each, while police seized Jeddah two women in the fifth decade during قيادتهن their cars.

Saw cities and provinces Arabia yesterday, and presence traffic intensive after the invitations published via social networking sites to break the ban on the leadership of Saudi car, where police confirmed Riyadh arrested five women يقدن cars, at a time in which the Eastern Region Police arrested five Also, police Jeddah seized two women.

The قائمون said the campaign, which was launched last month, its success, stressing that the march, which calls identified schools in the Kingdom have a starting point, it has not made for the campaign, but from imports fail by others and jamming them and make them in place of a clash with security. "

The "economic" present since early in front of schools in the Kingdom north of Riyadh, a place in which he declared the start of the women's march that ستجوب the streets of Riyadh, where a monument passage of Riyadh checkpoint is the auto shutdown "shaded" to make sure of the identity of its owner.

He told the "economic" Colonel Ali الدبيخي, commander of the passage of Riyadh traffic violations that have been monitored yesterday: "unusual such as not being linked to the belt and carry license or shading abuse", stressing that women's leadership is not the prerogative of traffic.

As Col. Fawaz Maiman said police media spokesman for the Riyadh had been shut down five women يقدن a car in Riyadh was applied to the instructions, without disclosing details, confirming that it will be in a media statement.

She faith eyelids are one of the posts in the campaign success, noting that the presence of more than 50 activists were able to drive the car yesterday, said: "The grass-roots campaign continues saying that contacts received several activists in the campaign ask them not to go down on October 26, specifically." He's "economic" an official at the Ministry of Interior, the security authorities are hunting women irregularities system to prevent women from driving a car who spread the clips for them in websites such as "YouTube" and "Twitter" and "Cake" They يقدن cars, and that is condemning them and exposing them to the death.

This comes at a time in which he emphasized yesterday a number of Saudi women they تراجعن the activists go down to the street to lead car, Makdat that the challenge to the authorities and they refuse, and أشرن that their campaign was from the outset a choice and not إجبارا. Said Col. Fawaz Al Maiman, assistant police media spokesman of the Riyadh region, the security agencies empowered to call the women who spread the pictures and clips of them and they يقدن car, and that the application of the system and giving them traffic violations, and took pledges them and their parents.

Colonel Maiman explained during his speech for the "economic" that when the offense is repeated book car and raise her in the Emirate.

Did not rule out that such cases may be portrayed in earlier times, to be published soon rally, Don him yesterday for incitement, stressing that the security authorities follow up and monitor what will discuss on this subject through the means of social communication, and it deals with the fans for driving advice and guidance.

He praised assistant media spokesman of the district police Riyadh cooperation of parents and good perception of Saudi women not to respond to such calls, which violates regulations, stressing that the security authorities would not tolerate women irregularities system for preventing women from driving, and they are authorized to stop any beating, converted to the Centers requirement for registration of the case and call her guardian to take the pledge before lifting the case file of the Emirate.

Maiman said that the security authorities proceeded to prevent any violation of the ban since the decision "internal" last Wednesday, calling on women to adhere to the regulations and not to depart from the laws. Furthermore, it was revealed report Ziad Alriqaiti, the official spokesman for the Eastern Region Police had been set five women Kdn their cars in different locations in the region, stressing that the three of them in Al-Ahsa and two in Dammam. And between that has been treated with five cases of individual according to the guidelines and the Interior Ministry statement, calling for everyone to abide by the instructions and directives and that exceed those instructions فسيتعرض of punishment issued by the ministry, stressing that the ladies that were Illthen been dealing with them according to the directions and تسليمهن for those responsible for the action.

As explained Lieutenant Nawaf bin Nasser trumpet media spokesman for the police Jeddah that he had recorded two cases of driving two cars the first woman was driving a car from a Mercedes at the age of 50 years, accompanied by the driver, the second woman to lead the type of car Chevrolet at the age of 50 years is also accompanied by her son's grave 14-year-old. He pointed out that in both cases the formal action was taken according to the instructions followed.

The trumpet has been on alert that it violates the regulations Vsttbak the right instructions, as stated in a statement the former Ministry of the Interior, and added in total security situation was in Jeddah excellent, did not register any cases other than those mentioned.

http://www.aleqt.com/2013/10/27/article_795599.html

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Source: http://rt.com/news/saudi-women-driving-viral-826/

No Woman, No Drive!? Saudi women to keep fighting against driving ban
Published time: October 28, 2013 04:05
Edited time: October 29, 2013 08:28

Sixteen Saudi Arabian females have been fined for driving after only a few dozen women braved the threat of punishment on the national protest day ?Women's driving is a choice? which took place on Saturday.

Online activists at first planned a global "drive-in" Saturday, but cancelled the campaign after threats from the government, instead declaring an open-ended campaign for those brave enough to drive. Some 60 women sat behind the wheel on Saturday according to the activists...

... Satirical song goes viral

A satirical YouTube Saudi adaptation of a famous Bob Marley song has gone viral online with over 2.5 million views in two days.

?No Woman, No Drive,? inspired by Marley's "No Woman, No Cry," was recorded by three Saudis who say that their experience in the West influenced them to come up with the satirical response to the ongoing battle...

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Girl, 22, arrested for driving.


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Edit violation of the vehicle led the girl in Jubail

10/29/2013 - ISSUE 695



Jubail - Mohamed الذبياني

Adjust the passage of Jubail province yesterday girl driving a vehicle on a street in the province.
Sources 'Middle' that girl, amounting to a 22-year-old, was Astaagafha and editing breach by the traffic patrol, while driving vehicle was accompanied by her brother. The Ministry of Interior has issued a statement about women driving the car on the lips of media spokesman of the Ministry Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki last Thursday in which he said that the system does not allow women-led car in Saudi Arabia. The ministry said it recognized in the Kingdom of Saudi women driving the car prohibited We will implement laws against irregularities Atgmehr the support of that.

This article was published in the printed newspaper Asharq No. (695) Page (5) on (10/29/2013)
Jubail | Mohammed الذبياني

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