In Saudi Arabia, a 32 year old women named Mana Al Sharif was arrested for driving because she is a women. Laws in Saudi Arabia do not let women drive cars. Al Sharif started a rally against this and made a Facebook group and events on Twitter to get women to drive on June 17th in Saudi Arabia. Al Sharif started to drive last week around her hometown and posting a video on YouTube of her doing it. She ended up getting caught while driving and got charged with "inciting women to drive" and "rallying public opinion". Usually when women get caught for driving they are taken to the police for a couple hours then are released to there brother or father after they had promised not to drive again. However, Al Sharif was held for 10 days and had much harsher treatment. I think that this is a very big discrimination not letting women drive shouldn't be a law, women should have rights to drive. I think what Al Sharif is doing is really good she has started awareness about the situation and people all over the world are starting to recognize what kind of women rights Saudi Arabia has. I hope that they change this law soon because I remember when I went to Saudi Arabia they don't even let women sit in the front seat they have to sit in the back seat I think this is just pure sexism.
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