Saudi Arabia has detained at least five people connected to the campaign to end the kingdom’s longtime ban on women driving, despite the fact that the government has promised to lift the ban next month, associates of the detainees said on Friday.
Around the time last year that the government announced that it was going to lift the ban on women driving, the authorities contacted a number of women who had campaigned against the ban and warned them to avoid talking about the issue on social media or with journalists, some of them said later.
Many of them assumed that the government did not want them to take credit publicly for the policy change in an absolute monarchy that suppresses activism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/middleeast/saudi-women-drivers-arrests.html
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