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Change In Leadership Of Morality Police In Saudi Arabia Normally the appointment of a new police chief will not attract much attention outside of the country concerned. However, King Abdullah’s appointment of a new head for Saudi Arabia’s morality police has had commentators and women’s rights activists speculating about what it will mean for reforms in that [...] “No More Virgins” Saudi clerics are fighting a desperate rearguard action to prevent the Saudi king from removing the ban on women drivers as part of the king’s reform program for the kingdom. And just how desperate the clerics are is shown by a report, described as a scientific study, that says, inter-alia, that Saudi Arabia will [...] Princess Twitted The Good News Events concerning the issue of women drivers in Saudi Arabia are moving fast. Princess Amira al-Taweel announced in her tweet that Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned Shaima Jastaina who was found guilty of illegal driving and sentenced to 10 lashes. Reactions Philip Luther, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa said: [...] Royal Command Saudi woman activist Manal Al Sharif has just been released from police detention by order of the Saudi king. Manal Al Sharif was arrested last week for driving a car in Saudi Arabia where women are not permitted to drive. But her arrest did not discourage other women activists who were campaigning for their right [...] Women Denied Right To Vote In Saudi Arabian 2011 Municipal Elections Unlike Morocco, where women won suffrage in 1963, and where now they hold 13% of elected positions, women in Saudi Arabia still do not have the vote. They were denied that right at the 2005 elections, but promised they would be given it for the next [...] The Denial By Saudi Authorities Last week the world was shocked by news that a Saudi judge had, in response to a request from a paralysed man for an eye-for-eye punishment for his assailant, written to hospitals to ask whether a man’s spinal cord could be severed. The plaintiff, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, had been paralysed because of an [...] The Saudi Judge’s Action Responding to a request from a paralysed man for tit-for-tat retribution for his assailant, a judge in the northwestern Saudi province of Tabuk has written to several hospitals in Saudi Arabia whether they could sever the assailant’s spinal cord. The Case The victim, Abdul-Aziz al-Mutairi, aged 22, was paralysed and later lost his foot after [...] Saudi Arabia, which sits on vast reserves of oil, is used to having foreign maids to serve their households. But now, a fatwa has been issued, allowing Saudi women to work as maids. And this fatwa has caused an uproar in Saudi Arabia, with academics and lawyers leading the way in saying “No” to it. Sheikh Saleh [...] Child marriage is in the news again, this time involving a 12-year old Saudi girl and an 80-year old Saudi man. Press reports said that the girl’s father arranged for her to be married to the 80-year old man in September 2009. Why would the father do that? Apparently it was because of the 85,000 riyals (US$ [...] |
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