Two women's rights campaigners detained in Saudi Arabia have been transferred to a special tribunal for "terrorism", activists said on Thursday after the women appeared in court. The ruling came at a hearing in Al-Ahsa, in the kingdom's Eastern Province, according to the activists who declined to be named. Loujain Hathloul has been detained ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) It's only for women over 30, who must be off the road by 8 p.m. and cannot wear makeup behind the wheel. But it's still a startling shift. The Saudi king's advisory council has recommended that the government lift its ban on female drivers, a member of the council told The Associated Press Friday. The Shura Council's ...

Activists in Saudi Arabia are set to defy a no-women driving law by getting behind the wheel amid warnings of punishment by officials. Saudi activists are encouraging women to drive themselves in public on Sunday on the anniversary of an October 26 campaign last year by female drivers in defiance of a driving ban in the kingdom. In recent weeks,...

TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia said a ban on women driving in the conservative Gulf state protects society from evil. According to AFP, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, in a speech delivered Wednesday in the western city of Medina, said the issue of giving women the right to drive should not be one of society's major ...

The Saudi Arabian government has detained a womens rights activist while defying the driving ban in the kingdom. The kingdoms security forces arrested leading campaigner Aziza al-Yousef while driving a car through the capital Riyadh along with her fellow activist Eman al-Nafjan on Friday. The two were taken to a police station, where they were ...

Saudi police have arrested a Kuwaiti woman for driving a car while taking her diabetic father to the hospital. TheKuwait Timesquoted a Saudi police source as saying on Sunday that the woman was driving in an area near the border with Kuwait, with her father in the passenger seat, when she was stopped by police. The woman is now being held in custody ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 29 (MNA) Several women who publicly supported a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's de facto ban on women driving fear they are being followed and investigated by the country's secret police, reported Alalam. The women, who requested anonymity due to their concerns for their safety, described to CNN how they'd been "followed by cars filled ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) Only a day after warnings by Saudi officials on the ban on womens driving, 15 women drivers have been fined. Mehr News quoted Saudi media reporting that Sunday October 27, five police fined 15 women drivers. On October 4 Mansour al-Turki, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry spokesman warned that women were not permitted to drive,...

Women in Saudi Arabia have defied a ban on female driving, despite warnings of punishment by the country's authorities. On Saturday, some Saudi women, including female activists, got behind the wheel in defiance of the driving ban in the kingdom. I went to the grocery shop near the house. I accept the risk, said a Saudi woman driver living in the ...

International rights groups have called on Saudi Arabian authorities to allow women to drive as a group of women prepared to defy a decades-old driving ban. On Thursday, rights watchdog Amnesty International urged Saudi Arabia to respect the right of women to drive on October 26 in defiance of the ban on women driving in the Kingdom. It is astonishing ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) Around 150 clerics and religious scholars have held a rare protest outside the Saudi king's palace against fresh efforts by women seeking the right to drive, accusing the US for the launching the campaign. On Tuesday, some of the senior religious leaders who protested outside the palace in the Red Sea port of Jiddah said the ...

A high council in Saudi Arabia has rejected a joint request made by three of its female members to discuss lifting the ban on women driving in the kingdom. On Thursday, the Shura Consultative Council stated that the issue was "irrelevant" to the discussions and "not within the transport ministry's remit." This comes ahead of a planned nationwide ...

Saudi activists have renewed their call on women in the Arab kingdom to get behind the wheels next month in defiance of the longstanding ban on female drivers in the country. An online petition entitled "Oct 26th, driving for women" gathered more than 5,800 signatories on Sunday, as activists try again to lift the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia....