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A Saudi woman, defying the country’s ban on female drivers, has been released after she was briefly arrested while driving to her daughter’s office in the city of Jeddah. AFP reports that Najla Hariri was released after her husband came to the police station. Before being released, Saudi women arrested for driving have previously had to sign a pledge promising not to drive again — but Hariri says she did…

Fourteen female United States senators have sent a letter to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, asking him to lift the ban that keeps women from driving within the kingdom. The letter — dated July 26 — comes as a major boos

Women’s rights activists, in support of those fighting a ban on female drivers in Saudi Arabia, are petitioning the U.S. State Department to condemn the detention of Saudi women who were arrested and held for driving earlier this week.

Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists, looking to overturn the kingdom’s ban on female drivers, have added a new social layer to their movement by launching Facebook ads about their Subaru campaign.The Saudi Women for Drivin

Five Saudi Arabian women have been arrested for the first time since numerous women started driving on June 17, in an effort to defy the kingdom’s ban on female drivers. The incidents have been reported by the Saudi media and have also be

More Saudi Arabian women drove their cars in the streets of capital Riyadh Wednesday, continuing a campaign — largely rooted in social media — to push the kingdom into overturning a ban on female drivers. At the same time, one of the E

The Saudi Women for Driving coalition has launched a Change.org campaign asking automobile company Subaru to pull out of Saudi Arabia until women have the right to drive. The petition is part of an ongoing movement, with origins largely rooted

Saudi Arabian women plan to start driving their cars Friday, one month after Manal al-Sherif — a key figure in a social media campaign against a ban on female drivers — was arrested when she posted a YouTube video of herself driving around