
Her name was Manal Al-Sharif who was an IT expert behind the campaign “Women2Drive” and was urging other women with foreign driver’s license to come out on the roads on June 17 in peaceful protest and posted a video of her driving herself on youtube, the video had around 500,000 views. Her brother was also in the car while she was driving, and was also taken into condition.
The Saudi Arabian women are forbidden to hold high government office, vote or roam in public places without their man’s permission. However, Saudia Arabia’s government did give a hint that it wanted to lift the ban but fear of reprisal from religious leaders hasn’t allowed them to do anything formally.
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