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Women driving campaign dropped
[ARABNEWS] Women will not take to the streets on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a nationwide campaign launched on Oct. 26, 2013 calling on the Saudi government to lift the driving ban.The statement, made by a leading advocate, comes in the wake of a recent Interior Ministry warning against women driving. Some 2,500 women had signed the online campaign to drive cars on the Kingdom's streets on Sunday. "The ministry's warning will be heeded. What happened last year was not orchestrated," said Samia El-Moslimany, a Saudi woman and supporter of the Oct. 26 campaign. The ministry described any such attempt by women to drive in public "an opportunity for predators to undermine social cohesion." Posted by: Fred 2014-10-26 |
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