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Women to drive movement

January 01, 1970

Until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles.[1] The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية qiyādat al-marʾa fī as-Suʿūdiyya) was a campaign by Saudi women, whom the government denies many rights to which men are entitled,[2] for the right to drive motor vehicles on public roads. Dozens of women drove in Riyadh in 1990 and were arrested and had their passports confiscated.[3] In 2007, Wajeha al-Huwaider and other women petitioned King Abdullah for the right to drive,[4] and a film of al-Huwaider driving on International Women's Day 2008 attracted international media attention.[3][5][6]

The logo of the women to drive movement

In 2011, the Arab Spring motivated some women[7][8] including al-Huwaider and Manal al-Sharif, to organise a more intensive campaign, and about seventy cases of women driving were documented in the latter half of June.[9][10][11] In late September, Shaima Jastania was sentenced to ten lashes for driving in Jeddah, although the sentence was later overturned.[12][13] Two years later, another campaign to defy the ban targeted 26 October 2013 as the date for women to start driving. Three days before, in a "rare and explicit restating of the ban", an Interior Ministry spokesman warned that "women in Saudi [Arabia] are banned from driving and laws will be applied against violators and those who demonstrate support."[14] Interior Ministry employees warned leaders of the campaign individually not to drive on 26 October, and police road blocks were assembled in Riyadh to check for women driving.[15]

On 26 September 2017, King Salman issued an order to allow women to drive, with new guidelines to be created and implemented by June 2018.[16] Women to drive campaigners were ordered not to contact media and in May 2018, several, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan, Aisha Al-Mana, Aziza al-Yousef and Madeha al-Ajroush, were detained.[17][18] The ban was officially lifted on 24 June 2018, but many of the women's rights activists remained under arrest.[19] As of 23 August 2018, twelve remained in detention.[20]

Background edit

Main article: Women's rights in Saudi Arabia § Mobility

According to scholar David Commins, "In 1957, Riyadh pronounced a ban on women driving."[21][22] As of 2012, women's rights in Saudi Arabia were highly constrained in comparison to international standards. This included their right to drive cars and other motor vehicles.[2] In 2002, The Economist magazine estimated that the salaries of the approximately 500,000 chauffeurs driving women in Saudi Arabia accounted for 1% of the national income.[23][24]

History edit

1990 driving protest edit

On 6 November 1990, 47 Saudi women in Riyadh drove their cars in protest against the driving ban.[25] They were imprisoned for one day, had their passports confiscated, and some of them lost their jobs as a result of their activism.[3]

2007–2008 petition and YouTube video edit

In September 2007, the Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia, co-founded by Wajeha al-Huwaider[5] and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, submitted a 1,100-signature petition to King Abdullah asking for women to be allowed to drive.[4]

On International Women's Day 2008, al-Huwaider filmed herself driving, for which she received international media attention after the video was posted on YouTube. Al-Huwaider's drive began within a residential compound, where women are permitted to drive since roadways inside the compound are not considered to be public roads, but she left the compound and drove along a main highway. Al-Huwaider expressed the hope that the ban on women driving would be lifted by International Women's Day in 2009.[3][5][6]

In June–July 2007, a Gallup poll found that the majority of Saudi men and women thought that women should be allowed to drive.[26]

2011–2014 campaign edit

 
Poster for the Saudi Arabia's #women2drive Movement, artwork by Carlos Latuff

In 2011, a group of women including Manal al-Sharif started a Facebook campaign named "Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself"[27] or Women2Drive[28][29] that says that women should be allowed to drive. The women said that their campaign was inspired by the Arab Spring.[7]

 
Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested for driving a car, as she was at the UAE-Saudi border.

The campaign called for women to start driving from 17 June 2011.[28] As of 21 May 2011, about 12,000 readers of the Facebook page had expressed their support.[27] Al-Sharif described the action as acting within women's rights, and "not protesting".[29] Wajeha al-Huwaider was impressed by the campaign and decided to help.[30]

A woman from Jeddah, Najla Hariri, started driving in the second week of May 2011, stating "Before in Saudi, you never heard about protests. [But] after what has happened in the Middle East, we started to accept a group of people going outside and saying what they want in a loud voice, and this has had an impact on me."[31]

Subaru edit

In mid-2011, as Subaru vehicles tend to be marketed heavily towards women (in the US), several Saudi women groups including Saudi Women for Driving asked the parent company of Subaru, Fuji Heavy Industries, to stop selling motor vehicles in countries where women cannot drive.[32]

Manal al-Sharif edit

Main article: Manal al-Sharif § 2011 women driving campaign
External videos
  Q&A interview with al-Sharif on her book Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening, July 16, 2017, C-SPAN

The following week, al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif driving a car[30] as part of the campaign. The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook.[27][28] Al-Sharif was detained and released on 21 May[33] and rearrested the following day.[29] On 30 May, al-Sharif was released on bail,[34] on the conditions of returning for questioning if requested, not driving and not talking to the media.[35] The New York Times and Associated Press associated the women's driving campaign with the wider pattern of the Arab Spring and the long duration of al-Sharif's detention with Saudi authorities' fear of protests.[8][36]

Late May – early June edit

On 23 May, another woman was detained for driving a car. She drove with two women passengers in Ar Rass and was detained by traffic police in the presence of the CPVPV. She was released after signing a statement that she would not drive again.[37] In reaction to al-Sharif's arrest, several more Saudi women published videos of themselves driving during the following days.[36]

Wajnat Rahbini, a Saudi actress famous in the Arab world for playing in the satirical comedy Tash ma Tash, broadcast annually during Ramadan, drove her car "in defiance of a long-standing ban on female driving"[38] on 4 June in Jeddah. She was detained after exiting her car and released the following day without bail.[38][39]

17 June 2011 edit

On 17 June, about 30[9] to 50[11] women drove cars in towns in Saudi Arabia, including Maha al-Qahtani and Eman Nafjan in Riyadh, and other women in Jeddah and Dammam. When she drove for a second time the same day, al-Qahtani was given a ticket for driving without a Saudi Arabian licence.[9] Al-Qahtani was pleased to receive the ticket, stating to a Time magazine journalist travelling with her, "It's a ticket. Write this down. I am the first Saudi woman to get a traffic ticket."[40]

The Guardian stated that "police appeared to be under orders not to intervene" during women's drives on 17 June.[9]

Late June 2011 edit

 
Cartoon for Saudi Arabia's Women to drive Movement by Carlos Latuff

Two Saudi women were photographed by Thomson Reuters after driving in Riyadh on 22 June.[41]

On 29 June, five women driving in Jeddah were arrested.[7] The Saudi Arabian blogger Eman al-Nafjan described the arrests as "the first big pushback from authorities".[7] She claimed that the June drives were more significant than the 1990 protest, stating, "When actually the 1990 protest was only fourteen cars that had 47 passengers, [from] June 17th and onwards there have been about seventy documented cases of women driving."[10]

July–September edit

In July, Princess al-Taweel, niece-in-law of Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, spoke about her opposition to the women driving ban on the United States (US) radio station NPR and called for women to have equal rights in the workforce, in the legal system, and in education. She described these human rights as more important than the right to drive. In response to criticisms of women's rights campaigns, she described her approach as "evolution not revolution".[42]

At the end of September, Shaima Jastania was sentenced to 10 lashes for having driven a car in Jeddah. The sentence was announced shortly after King Abdullah decreed that women would be able to participate in the 2015 Saudi Arabian municipal elections and be appointed to the Consultative Assembly; King Abdullah overturned the sentence.[12][13]

November edit

On 15 November 2011, Manal al-Sharif filed charges in the Grievances Board, a non-Sharia specialized court,[43] against the General Directorate of Traffic for the rejection of her application for a driver's licence. Al-Sharif had applied for a licence in May 2011.[44][45] The lawsuit was transferred to the Ministry of Interior.[46]

December edit

In early December, a member of the Consultative Assembly, Kamal Subhi, submitted a report to the Assembly saying that lifting the ban would cause prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce and the "end of virginity". The head of the Assembly told women campaigners that he was "still open to hearing the case for lifting the ban".[47]

February 2012 edit

On 4 February,[48] Samar Badawi, a human rights activist[45] who had driven regularly since June 2011 and helped other women drivers with police and court procedures,[49] filed similar charges to those of Manal al-Sharif, objecting to the rejection of her own driving licence application. Badawi was asked by the Grievances Board to "follow-up in a week".[45] The women to drive campaign circulated an email about the court case.[44]

June 2012 edit

On 29 June 2012, to celebrate the anniversary of the June 2011 driving campaign launch, a member of the My Right to Dignity women's rights campaign[50] drove her car in Riyadh. She stated that she had driven about 30–40 times in 2011 and that about 100 Saudi women had driven regularly since June 2011.[51]

October 2013 edit

In October 2013, there was a campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on 26 October, which gained support from some prominent women activists.[52] In response, the campaign's website () was blocked within Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, one of Saudi Arabia's top clerics, said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems.[52] Interior ministry employees had also contacted leaders of the campaign individually to tell them not to drive.[53] However, despite this discouragement and a heavy police presence, as of Sunday 27 October Saudi activists had posted 12 films on YouTube said to be of women driving on Saturday, and said some other women had also driven but without recording their exploits on video or in photographs.[53] Also a YouTube film made by Hisham Alfageeh and other male Saudi comedians went viral on Saturday to support the women's driving campaign, parodying the Bob Marley song "No Woman No Cry" as "No Woman No Drive".[53]

Loujain Al-Hathloul

On 30 November 2014, Loujain Al-Hathloul made her move toward the Women to drive Movement in Saudi Arabia. As known, Saudi women are not able to have a driver's license, but Al-Hathloul previously obtained a driver's license from the United Arab Emirates. She filmed her experience of driving from the United Arab of Emirates with the intention of crossing the border back to Saudi Arabia. As a part of the support of the issue of the Saudi ban on women drivers. Al-Hathloul filmed herself driving on 26 October 2014. Her videos had over 800,000 views, a hashtag on Twitter, and also over 3,000 comments on YouTube.[54] The public opinion with Al-Hathloul's case was divided to two groups, one group was supportive to what Lujain did, and the other one was not. Al-Hathloul tweeted her followers about her journey from the beginning. When she arrived at the border of Saudi Arabia she tweeted that she was stopped by a Saudi customs officer at the border. Al-Hathloul tweeted to her followers to keep them up with her and said: "Twenty-four hours spent on the border of Saudi." She also tweeted: "They won't give me back my passport and they won't let me pass through and no word from the Ministry of Interior. Complete silence from all the officials."[54] Loujain Al-Hathloul was arrested after she filmed her attempt to defy the ban of driving for Saudis Women. She was arrested for 73 days.[55][56]

Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Prince Mohammed bin Salman talked about the Ban of Saudi Women Driving in an interview and he said that "Saudi Arabia is not ready for women drivers".[57] The prince Mohammed also said that "Women driving is not a religious issue as much as it is an issue that relates to the community itself that either accepts it or refuses it."[57] However, he was later seen as the figure behind the removal of the driving ban in September 2017.[58]

Lifting of ban 2017–2018 edit

On 26 September 2017, King Salman issued a statement recognizing the right of Saudi women to drive in keeping with Sharia. Licenses were set to be issued to women starting on 24 June 2018.[59][60] Saudi authorities also contacted women to drive campaigners. Around 15–18 May 2018, Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan, Aisha Al-Mana, Aziza al-Yousef, Madeha al-Ajroush, and several other women and two men also involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign were detained by Saudi authorities.[18] Human Rights Watch interpreted the purpose of the arrests as frightening "anyone expressing skepticism about the crown prince's rights agenda".[17]

On 24 June 2018, as promised by Saudi authorities, several women received driving licences and started driving their cars. Many of the women to drive movement and anti male-guardianship women activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, remained in detention as part of the 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists.[19] As of 23 August 2018, twelve remained in detention without any legal charges laid against them and without legal representation.[20]

In late November 2018, the Women to Drive campaigners detained in Dhahban Central Prison were tortured. According to Human Rights Watch, several of the women were lashed and given electric shocks, one was "made to hang for long periods of time from the ceiling" and one tried several times to commit suicide.[61] As of 21 November 2018, the women had been publicly accused of "undermining state security and aiding enemies of the state" but had not yet been charged.[62]

As of 20 November 2018, according to the Saudi newspaper Okaz, the women were to be tried at the Specialized Criminal Court, with prosecutors calling for prison terms of up to 20 years.[63]

In late March 2019, the women presented their defence and described physical and sexual abuse they had endured in captivity. Aziza al-Yousef, Dr Rokaya Mohareb and Eman al-Nafjan were released on bail.[64]

International solidarity edit

United States edit

An international new media campaign started in the US[65] to support women drivers in Saudi Arabia with tweets, pictures, and YouTube videos[66] of people honking to support women drivers in Saudi Arabia, included Rep. Nancy Pelosi and race car driver Lelani Munter.[67][68]

On 15 June 2011, women drivers in the United States organised a protest in solidarity with Saudi women, planning to encircle the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C.[69] In mid-June, three women from Minnesota, supported by an advocacy group, announced a gender discrimination complaint against Saudi Arabia's livery services in Rochester to coincide with the 2011 "Women2Drive" campaign.[70][71]

Recording industry edit

The music video to the M.I.A. song "Bad Girls", released on 2 February 2012, is a protest piece in solidarity with the movement.[72][73] Elizabeth Broomhall, writing in Arabian Business, appreciated M.I.A. for "pushing boundaries" to get the world to pay attention to women's right to drive in the kingdom, and for being a female artist who "finally" did something different.[74] Lucy Jones of The Daily Telegraph praised the video for its stance against Saudi driving law.[75]

See also edit

 
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Until June 2018 Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles 1 The Women to Drive Movement Arabic قيادة المرأة في السعودية qiyadat al marʾa fi as Suʿudiyya was a campaign by Saudi women whom the government denies many rights to which men are entitled 2 for the right to drive motor vehicles on public roads Dozens of women drove in Riyadh in 1990 and were arrested and had their passports confiscated 3 In 2007 Wajeha al Huwaider and other women petitioned King Abdullah for the right to drive 4 and a film of al Huwaider driving on International Women s Day 2008 attracted international media attention 3 5 6 The logo of the women to drive movement In 2011 the Arab Spring motivated some women 7 8 including al Huwaider and Manal al Sharif to organise a more intensive campaign and about seventy cases of women driving were documented in the latter half of June 9 10 11 In late September Shaima Jastania was sentenced to ten lashes for driving in Jeddah although the sentence was later overturned 12 13 Two years later another campaign to defy the ban targeted 26 October 2013 as the date for women to start driving Three days before in a rare and explicit restating of the ban an Interior Ministry spokesman warned that women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving and laws will be applied against violators and those who demonstrate support 14 Interior Ministry employees warned leaders of the campaign individually not to drive on 26 October and police road blocks were assembled in Riyadh to check for women driving 15 On 26 September 2017 King Salman issued an order to allow women to drive with new guidelines to be created and implemented by June 2018 16 Women to drive campaigners were ordered not to contact media and in May 2018 several including Loujain al Hathloul Eman al Nafjan Aisha Al Mana Aziza al Yousef and Madeha al Ajroush were detained 17 18 The ban was officially lifted on 24 June 2018 but many of the women s rights activists remained under arrest 19 As of 23 August 2018 update twelve remained in detention 20 Contents 1 Background 2 History 2 1 1990 driving protest 2 2 2007 2008 petition and YouTube video 2 3 2011 2014 campaign 2 3 1 Subaru 2 3 2 Manal al Sharif 2 3 3 Late May early June 2 3 4 17 June 2011 2 3 5 Late June 2011 2 3 6 July September 2 3 7 November 2 3 8 December 2 3 9 February 2012 2 3 10 June 2012 2 3 11 October 2013 2 4 Lifting of ban 2017 2018 3 International solidarity 3 1 United States 3 2 Recording industry 4 See also 5 ReferencesBackground editMain article Women s rights in Saudi Arabia Mobility According to scholar David Commins In 1957 Riyadh pronounced a ban on women driving 21 22 As of 2012 update women s rights in Saudi Arabia were highly constrained in comparison to international standards This included their right to drive cars and other motor vehicles 2 In 2002 The Economist magazine estimated that the salaries of the approximately 500 000 chauffeurs driving women in Saudi Arabia accounted for 1 of the national income 23 24 History edit1990 driving protest edit On 6 November 1990 47 Saudi women in Riyadh drove their cars in protest against the driving ban 25 They were imprisoned for one day had their passports confiscated and some of them lost their jobs as a result of their activism 3 2007 2008 petition and YouTube video edit In September 2007 the Association for the Protection and Defense of Women s Rights in Saudi Arabia co founded by Wajeha al Huwaider 5 and Fawzia al Uyyouni submitted a 1 100 signature petition to King Abdullah asking for women to be allowed to drive 4 On International Women s Day 2008 al Huwaider filmed herself driving for which she received international media attention after the video was posted on YouTube Al Huwaider s drive began within a residential compound where women are permitted to drive since roadways inside the compound are not considered to be public roads but she left the compound and drove along a main highway Al Huwaider expressed the hope that the ban on women driving would be lifted by International Women s Day in 2009 3 5 6 In June July 2007 a Gallup poll found that the majority of Saudi men and women thought that women should be allowed to drive 26 2011 2014 campaign edit nbsp Poster for the Saudi Arabia s women2drive Movement artwork by Carlos Latuff In 2011 a group of women including Manal al Sharif started a Facebook campaign named Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself 27 or Women2Drive 28 29 that says that women should be allowed to drive The women said that their campaign was inspired by the Arab Spring 7 nbsp Loujain al Hathloul was arrested for driving a car as she was at the UAE Saudi border The campaign called for women to start driving from 17 June 2011 28 As of 21 May 2011 update about 12 000 readers of the Facebook page had expressed their support 27 Al Sharif described the action as acting within women s rights and not protesting 29 Wajeha al Huwaider was impressed by the campaign and decided to help 30 A woman from Jeddah Najla Hariri started driving in the second week of May 2011 stating Before in Saudi you never heard about protests But after what has happened in the Middle East we started to accept a group of people going outside and saying what they want in a loud voice and this has had an impact on me 31 Subaru edit In mid 2011 as Subaru vehicles tend to be marketed heavily towards women in the US several Saudi women groups including Saudi Women for Driving asked the parent company of Subaru Fuji Heavy Industries to stop selling motor vehicles in countries where women cannot drive 32 Manal al Sharif edit Main article Manal al Sharif 2011 women driving campaign External videos nbsp Q amp A interview with al Sharif on her book Daring to Drive A Saudi Woman s Awakening July 16 2017 C SPAN The following week al Huwaider filmed al Sharif driving a car 30 as part of the campaign The video was posted on YouTube and Facebook 27 28 Al Sharif was detained and released on 21 May 33 and rearrested the following day 29 On 30 May al Sharif was released on bail 34 on the conditions of returning for questioning if requested not driving and not talking to the media 35 The New York Times and Associated Press associated the women s driving campaign with the wider pattern of the Arab Spring and the long duration of al Sharif s detention with Saudi authorities fear of protests 8 36 Late May early June edit On 23 May another woman was detained for driving a car She drove with two women passengers in Ar Rass and was detained by traffic police in the presence of the CPVPV She was released after signing a statement that she would not drive again 37 In reaction to al Sharif s arrest several more Saudi women published videos of themselves driving during the following days 36 Wajnat Rahbini a Saudi actress famous in the Arab world for playing in the satirical comedy Tash ma Tash broadcast annually during Ramadan drove her car in defiance of a long standing ban on female driving 38 on 4 June in Jeddah She was detained after exiting her car and released the following day without bail 38 39 17 June 2011 edit On 17 June about 30 9 to 50 11 women drove cars in towns in Saudi Arabia including Maha al Qahtani and Eman Nafjan in Riyadh and other women in Jeddah and Dammam When she drove for a second time the same day al Qahtani was given a ticket for driving without a Saudi Arabian licence 9 Al Qahtani was pleased to receive the ticket stating to a Time magazine journalist travelling with her It s a ticket Write this down I am the first Saudi woman to get a traffic ticket 40 The Guardian stated that police appeared to be under orders not to intervene during women s drives on 17 June 9 Late June 2011 edit nbsp Cartoon for Saudi Arabia s Women to drive Movement by Carlos Latuff Two Saudi women were photographed by Thomson Reuters after driving in Riyadh on 22 June 41 On 29 June five women driving in Jeddah were arrested 7 The Saudi Arabian blogger Eman al Nafjan described the arrests as the first big pushback from authorities 7 She claimed that the June drives were more significant than the 1990 protest stating When actually the 1990 protest was only fourteen cars that had 47 passengers from June 17th and onwards there have been about seventy documented cases of women driving 10 July September edit In July Princess al Taweel niece in law of Abdullah of Saudi Arabia spoke about her opposition to the women driving ban on the United States US radio station NPR and called for women to have equal rights in the workforce in the legal system and in education She described these human rights as more important than the right to drive In response to criticisms of women s rights campaigns she described her approach as evolution not revolution 42 At the end of September Shaima Jastania was sentenced to 10 lashes for having driven a car in Jeddah The sentence was announced shortly after King Abdullah decreed that women would be able to participate in the 2015 Saudi Arabian municipal elections and be appointed to the Consultative Assembly King Abdullah overturned the sentence 12 13 November edit On 15 November 2011 Manal al Sharif filed charges in the Grievances Board a non Sharia specialized court 43 against the General Directorate of Traffic for the rejection of her application for a driver s licence Al Sharif had applied for a licence in May 2011 44 45 The lawsuit was transferred to the Ministry of Interior 46 December edit In early December a member of the Consultative Assembly Kamal Subhi submitted a report to the Assembly saying that lifting the ban would cause prostitution pornography homosexuality and divorce and the end of virginity The head of the Assembly told women campaigners that he was still open to hearing the case for lifting the ban 47 February 2012 edit On 4 February 48 Samar Badawi a human rights activist 45 who had driven regularly since June 2011 and helped other women drivers with police and court procedures 49 filed similar charges to those of Manal al Sharif objecting to the rejection of her own driving licence application Badawi was asked by the Grievances Board to follow up in a week 45 The women to drive campaign circulated an email about the court case 44 June 2012 edit On 29 June 2012 to celebrate the anniversary of the June 2011 driving campaign launch a member of the My Right to Dignity women s rights campaign 50 drove her car in Riyadh She stated that she had driven about 30 40 times in 2011 and that about 100 Saudi women had driven regularly since June 2011 51 October 2013 edit In October 2013 there was a campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on 26 October which gained support from some prominent women activists 52 In response the campaign s website www oct26driving org was blocked within Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Saleh al Lohaidan one of Saudi Arabia s top clerics said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems 52 Interior ministry employees had also contacted leaders of the campaign individually to tell them not to drive 53 However despite this discouragement and a heavy police presence as of Sunday 27 October Saudi activists had posted 12 films on YouTube said to be of women driving on Saturday and said some other women had also driven but without recording their exploits on video or in photographs 53 Also a YouTube film made by Hisham Alfageeh and other male Saudi comedians went viral on Saturday to support the women s driving campaign parodying the Bob Marley song No Woman No Cry as No Woman No Drive 53 Loujain Al HathloulOn 30 November 2014 Loujain Al Hathloul made her move toward the Women to drive Movement in Saudi Arabia As known Saudi women are not able to have a driver s license but Al Hathloul previously obtained a driver s license from the United Arab Emirates She filmed her experience of driving from the United Arab of Emirates with the intention of crossing the border back to Saudi Arabia As a part of the support of the issue of the Saudi ban on women drivers Al Hathloul filmed herself driving on 26 October 2014 Her videos had over 800 000 views a hashtag on Twitter and also over 3 000 comments on YouTube 54 The public opinion with Al Hathloul s case was divided to two groups one group was supportive to what Lujain did and the other one was not Al Hathloul tweeted her followers about her journey from the beginning When she arrived at the border of Saudi Arabia she tweeted that she was stopped by a Saudi customs officer at the border Al Hathloul tweeted to her followers to keep them up with her and said Twenty four hours spent on the border of Saudi She also tweeted They won t give me back my passport and they won t let me pass through and no word from the Ministry of Interior Complete silence from all the officials 54 Loujain Al Hathloul was arrested after she filmed her attempt to defy the ban of driving for Saudis Women She was arrested for 73 days 55 56 Prince Mohammed bin SalmanPrince Mohammed bin Salman talked about the Ban of Saudi Women Driving in an interview and he said that Saudi Arabia is not ready for women drivers 57 The prince Mohammed also said that Women driving is not a religious issue as much as it is an issue that relates to the community itself that either accepts it or refuses it 57 However he was later seen as the figure behind the removal of the driving ban in September 2017 58 Lifting of ban 2017 2018 edit On 26 September 2017 King Salman issued a statement recognizing the right of Saudi women to drive in keeping with Sharia Licenses were set to be issued to women starting on 24 June 2018 59 60 Saudi authorities also contacted women to drive campaigners Around 15 18 May 2018 Loujain al Hathloul Eman al Nafjan Aisha Al Mana Aziza al Yousef Madeha al Ajroush and several other women and two men also involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male guardianship campaign were detained by Saudi authorities 18 Human Rights Watch interpreted the purpose of the arrests as frightening anyone expressing skepticism about the crown prince s rights agenda 17 On 24 June 2018 as promised by Saudi authorities several women received driving licences and started driving their cars Many of the women to drive movement and anti male guardianship women activists including Loujain al Hathloul remained in detention as part of the 2018 2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists 19 As of 23 August 2018 update twelve remained in detention without any legal charges laid against them and without legal representation 20 In late November 2018 the Women to Drive campaigners detained in Dhahban Central Prison were tortured According to Human Rights Watch several of the women were lashed and given electric shocks one was made to hang for long periods of time from the ceiling and one tried several times to commit suicide 61 As of 21 November 2018 update the women had been publicly accused of undermining state security and aiding enemies of the state but had not yet been charged 62 As of 20 November 2018 update according to the Saudi newspaper Okaz the women were to be tried at the Specialized Criminal Court with prosecutors calling for prison terms of up to 20 years 63 In late March 2019 the women presented their defence and described physical and sexual abuse they had endured in captivity Aziza al Yousef Dr Rokaya Mohareb and Eman al Nafjan were released on bail 64 International solidarity editUnited States edit An international new media campaign started in the US 65 to support women drivers in Saudi Arabia with tweets pictures and YouTube videos 66 of people honking to support women drivers in Saudi Arabia included Rep Nancy Pelosi and race car driver Lelani Munter 67 68 On 15 June 2011 women drivers in the United States organised a protest in solidarity with Saudi women planning to encircle the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington D C 69 In mid June three 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