Press TV - UK-basedrightsgroupAmnestyInternationalsays Saudi Arabia has leveled bogus charges against some 10 women rights activists. Some of the women were charged with promoting womens rights and calling for the end of the male guardianship system. The women were also charged with contacting international organizations, foreign media and other ...

Independent - Public prosecutors decision sets a dangerous precedent for women activists in the kingdom, human rights watchdog says Human rights activists are campaigning to save the life of the first woman in Saudi Arabia to be sentenced to death over her political activism. Israa al-Ghomgham, 29, was arrested along with her husband Moussa al-...

Sputnik - Women from Saudi Arabia will be able to drive cars and cross into neighboring Bahrain by car without men on June 24, when the permission to drive cars for Saudi women officially comes into force, Saudi Ambassador to Bahrain Abdullah bin Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh said. "Saudi women have the right toindependently cross bycar intoBahrain ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia has arrested three more womens rights activists as the regime intensifies its crackdown weeks before it lifts a driving ban against women. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that the total number of detainees now stands at 10 with the latest arrests. However, the Lebanon-based [Persian] Gulf ...

The New York Times - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the oppression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. The change, which will take effect in June 2018, was announced in a royal decree read live on state television and in a simultaneous ...

Xinhua - Girls in public schools in Saudi Arabia will receive physical education classes in the coming academic year, the country's Education Ministry has announced. Education Minister Ahmed Al-Issa issued a decree on Tuesday, under which classes will be gradually introduced in the 2017-2018 school year. Lina K. Almaeena, a member of the Consultative ...

Press TV - A female activist jailed for driving in Saudi Arabia says women are treated as slaves in the kingdom. I come from a very private society where we live in closed windows, high walls and women are covered up. It's very difficult for girls and women in Saudi Arabia to do anything without the permission from a male guardian, Manal al-...

IFP- Saudi Al-Watan newspaper reported that one of the young women came to the Criminal Court in Jeddah and accused the other of using abusive expressions during their WhatsApp conversation. She then showed her phone at the Courts request to prove her words. During the next session, the court confirmed that the woman had indeed sent obscene messages ...

Saudi Arabia's top advisory body, known as the Shura Council, has rejected a proposal for conducting a study on the issue of women's driving, ignoring international calls for easing restrictions on women. A member of the council said on Wednesday that the study had been proposed by a male member at a meeting this week but failed to get the required ...

Alwaght- For the first time in history, women in Saudi Arabia have cast their ballots. This is the main headline that has swamped the media in light of Saudis municipal elections with attempts to show the event as a first step toward womens freedoms in the Persian-Gulf State. Tight Rope Far from that, however, these elections are a sham, a deluding ...

Alwaght- News that women are registering to vote in elections in Saudi Arabia has garnered plenty of attention. But before we celebrate a step toward equality in one of the world's most notorious misogynist country, it is important to look a little closer at this supposed reform. The fact is this that when you view this change in the wider context ...

(CNN)_For the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia, women can begin registering to vote this week. According to local media, women will be able to vote and run in elections held in December of this year, marking a step forward for proponents of women's rights in a country that has received heavy criticism for its treatment of women. "This ...

A prominent Saudi cleric has declared that online conversations between men and women are religiously forbidden and has warned that they may lead to committing sin. According to Saudi daily al-Eqitisadiya, Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Saudi Committee of Senior Scholars, said that chatting online through social networks falls under the ...

It is still inappropriate for women to work at jewelry shops because the working environment needs reforming, the chairman of the gold and jewelry committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry told Al-Hayat daily. No decision has been made yet regarding the possibility of requiring jewelry shops to hire female workers, Karim Al-Eneizi said....

The abaya and the veil didnt help. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has dropped the patriarchal theory ofholding awomanfully responsiblewhen she gets harassed. In the workplace and in the markets, there havebeen many utterances and actions that are incongruent with the image that the Saudis painted of themselves in their own minds: that they are an ideal ...

The countrys first female law firm has opened its doors to protect womens rights in Saudi Arabia, two months after its founder along with three other female lawyers were granted licenses to practice law in the traditionally patriarchal kingdom. Now Saudi women can seek help, advice and legal aid from Bayan Mahmoud Al Zahran, the first Saudi woman ...