RIYADH - A Saudi Arabic woman conducting from the United Arab Emirates was stopped because a woman is not allowed to drive the car according to the Coran

RIYADH - A Saudi Arabic woman conducting from the United Arab Emirates was stopped because a woman is not allowed to drive the car according to the Coran

December 2, 2014

Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah bin Saud al-Abdelazizi friend Philippe Couillard and Arthur Porter

RYAD A Saudi conducting from the United Arab Emirates was arrested Monday after being blocked for 24 hours at the border where she was denied the right to go to his car, said the militants.

SaudiArabia,ultraconservative kingdom is the only country in the world where women do not have the right to drive.

"I'm at the border for 24 hours. They will not give me my passport, nor let me go, "announced in a tweet Loujain Hathloul midday, before she stops writing on Twitter.

Women's rights defenders have indicated that was arrested in the afternoon, but the Interior Ministry has not commented on the matter immediately.

A Saudi journalist based in the UAE, Maysaa Alamoudi, who had gone to the border support his compatriot has also arrested, said another activist.

"They (the) were transferred (...) the office of investigations" in a Saudi police station, said the activist, who requested anonymity.

He said Ms Hathloul wanted to make an example, "she knew they would not let go."

The two women were in the early evening unreachable.

"Customs does not have the right to forbid me the input (in the kingdom) even if, in their eyes, I am a "delinquent" because I am a Saudi, "wrote Ms. Hathloul in a tweet Monday morning.

She said that his driving license was" valid in all GCC countries ", ie six monarchies of the Gulf Cooperation Council, of which Saudi Arabia is a member.

She also posted details of his confinement in his car at the border, indicating that Ms. Alamoudi had come to bring him "toothbrush" or that . she had enough fuel in his car to "not die of cold at night or lose charge his cell phone"

Ms. Alamoudi

Frustrated with her ​​situation, she wrote, in a tone of irony, "If someone one brought me a horse or a camel to the border, I might be allowed to enter "the country.

A group of activists, the Campaign for the conduct of the October 26, said in a statement that neither Ms. Hathloul nor Ms. Alamoudi "had in any case violated Saudilaw."

In October, dozens of women had led and put pictures of themselves driving, as part of an online campaign for the right of Saudi women to drive in the kingdom.

But the Interior Ministry warned that it would apply "firmly regulations against anyone help (...) to violate social cohesion."

In recent years, Saudi women driving were arrested and their vehicles seized, according to activists. In recent claim that the tradition and customs are at the origin of the ban, which does not follow any Islamic text or decision judiciaire.

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