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Saudi women drivers referred to terrorism court

Dec 25, 2014 8:43 am By Robert Spencer

Saudi-woman-drivingThis is a country that sends jihad terrorists to a sumptuous “rehabilitation” center, featuring “recreation facilities, comfortable living quarters, and special apartments for conjugal visits” — a center that “looks more like a hotel than a prison.” It’s the women drivers who are treated like actual terrorists.

“Saudi Women Drivers Referred to Terrorism Court,” by Aya Batrawy, Associated Press, December 25, 2014:

Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban to keep females from driving were referred on Thursday to a court established to try terrorism cases, several people close to the defendants said.

Activists said it marks the first time that women drivers have been referred to the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, and that their detention is the longest of female drivers in Saudi history.

Those close to Loujain al-Hathloul, 25, and Maysa al-Amoudi, 33, said the women are not being charged for defying the driving ban but for opinions they voiced online. They declined to elaborate on the specific charges due to the sensitivity of the case. All spoke anonymously for fear of government reprisal.

They told The Associated Press that the women’s defense lawyers immediately appealed the judge’s decision to transfer their cases to the court, which was established to try terrorism cases but has also been used to try peaceful dissidents and activists.

Human Rights Watch recently warned that “Saudi authorities are ramping up their crackdown on people who peacefully criticize the government on the Internet.” It said that judges and prosecutors are using “vague provisions of a 2007 anti-cybercrime law to charge and try Saudi citizens for peaceful tweets and social media comments.”

At the time of their arrest, al-Hathloul and al-Amoudi had a combined Twitter following of more than 355,000. They were vocal supporters of a grassroots campaign launched last year to oppose the ban on women driving….

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Filed Under: Saudi Arabia, Sharia Tagged With: Loujain al-Hathloul, Maysa al-Amoudi


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  1. Christian A. Beltram says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:28 am

    The real terrorists in Saudi Arabia are the men who rule that barbaric nation!

  2. jewdog says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Did Mohammad drive a car? If not, and he was the perfect example, then Muslims should not drive cars. Period.

  3. Angemon says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 12:00 pm

    Those close to Loujain al-Hathloul, 25, and Maysa al-Amoudi, 33, said the women are not being charged for defying the driving ban but for opinions they voiced online.

    So, how about that freedom of speech?

  4. Salah says

    Dec 25, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    When the Egyptians rose up against the Muslim Brotherhood rule and kicked them out of power, Egyptian WOMEN were the main force behind this uprising.
    Muslim women are fed up with their inferiority status.
    Unfortunately, when it comes to Islam, our women’s rights activists in the West are completely silent.

    • hammar says

      Dec 26, 2014 at 7:54 am

      Women activists in the West are completely silent because the West has given all rights to women. So they are not inclined to take on islam which is not yet a problem here…but just wait. Time will come with this insanity called islam try’s to take root. There is nothing “Holy” or “Scared” in the koran. It is just filled with laws which allow murder, rape, kidnapping, and submission of women. Which is something like say….Terrorism.

  5. JoJo says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 9:05 am

    Testing

  6. mortimer says

    Dec 26, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Western feminists are cultural Marxists who give a get-out-of-jail card to Third World male misogynists. A perfect example is the mother of Barack Obama who only married Third World misogynists. Western feminists support the Marxist plan of destroying European civilization and replacing it with censorship, totalitarianism and a Marxist elitist class that rules over the toiling masses without their consent.

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