
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Witness History
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Women's Rights in the Kingdom
In the med 20 tenth south arabia. Iint used a plan which it claimed would modernize some aspects of soudy society. This included allowing women to vote and their right to drive. But around the same time, dozens of manal's friends and fellow activists were arrested or forced into exile. Human rit groups later revealed how some of the women were allegedly tortured and harassed in jail. All my friends and men, every single woman that was part of the woman to drive movement, was sent to jail. And i paid high price when i had to leave the country to move to australia for safety reasons. But i never thought i cannot go back to soth
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