Saudi woman to get 10 lashes for driving a car

[PteX]

CAIRO -- Saudi activists say a court has sentenced a Saudi woman with 10 lashes for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving.

Activist Samar Badawi says Shaima Ghassaniya was found guilty Tuesday of driving without the government's permission.

No laws prohibit women from driving, but conservative religious edicts have banned it.

The ruling comes just two days after Saudi King Abdullah announced that, for the first time, women have the right to vote and run in the country's 2015 local elections.

Najalaa Harriri, who is also facing court for driving, told The Associated Press she needed to drive to take better care of her children.

Tuesday's verdict is the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia. Other women were detained for several days, but had not been sentenced by a court.


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[relativiti]

 

[888jamie888]

Messed up country.

 

[longbrained]

During Prophet's time women used to ride horses and camels around the desert. Why they can not drive around in airconditioned cars according to Wahabis is beyond me. They are defaming Islam.

 

[Imran Khan]

israel should not worry you guys have no businesses in this issue

 

[PteX]

israel should not worry you guys have no businesses in this issue

We ain`t. Saudis may be as barbaric as they like, still there is no rule here not to post articles, like so many Pakistanis do about Israel.

 

[blackops]

Sick bast@r~& how can you beat up a women that is disgusting

 

[Ahmad]

they at least have another couple of centuries to go.

 

[Birbal]

israel should not worry you guys have no businesses in this issue

What do you mean? If the despotic Saudi regime gets overthrown, Israel would begin to run low on allies.

 

[Leader]

this is a non issue that saudis have made an issue out of it... for rants and trolls feeding...

 

[VCheng]

During Prophet's time women used to ride horses and camels around the desert. Why they can not drive around in airconditioned cars according to Wahabis is beyond me. They are defaming Islam.

I think Saudi women are still free to ride horses and camels.

 

[Karachiite]

Barbaric Animals.

 

[President Camacho]

No laws prohibit women from driving, but conservative religious edicts have banned it.

Najalaa Harriri, who is also facing court for driving, told The Associated Press she needed to drive to take better care of her children.

So... there are two different laws in Saudi Arabia - one to show the world, and the other to act upon.

But that's not a problem at all, the problem is - the citizens are not informed which laws should they abide by and which ones should they not.

See, it's just a communication problem.

 

[Yeti]

Are the Saudi's secretly into BDSM? and this ban on driving is just a ploy to inflict some pain on some hot flesh

 

[Safriz]

if the law of the land says that women cant drive for whatever reason...then the law should be followed by residents of the country......end of.