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Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive

"Saudi Arabia allows women into stadium as it steps up reforms"

By BEN HUBBARDSEPT. 26, 2017


A woman behind the wheel in Saudi Arabia in 2013. The kingdom said on Tuesday that women would
be allowed to drive starting in June. Credit Faisal Al Nasser/Reuters

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... in a small news conference at the Saudi embassy in Washington, an exuberant Prince Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador, said women would be able to obtain driver’s licenses without having to ask permission of their husbands, fathers or any male guardian — despite so-called “guardianship” laws that give men power over their female relatives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

.. after 27 years of protest .. yay! .. now women are allowed into stadiums and to drive cars ..

"Slowly but surely over time..., while Trump seeks to drag the U.S.A. into authoritarian yesteryear."

See also:

Saudi Arabia Moves to Silence Deposed Prince, Dissidents
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132706216

How Saudi Arabia played Donald Trump [.. and more ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131685573

[including] .. David Ignatius: A young prince is reimagining Saudi Arabia. Can he make his vision come true?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-young-prince-reimagines-saudi-arabia-can-he-make-his-vision-come-true/2017/04/20/663d79a4-2549-11e7-b503-9d616bd5a305_story.html?utm_term=.9f3c248b09af