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Saturday, November 24, 2012

HUSBANDS in Saudi Arabia are now monitoring their wives' movements out of the country using electronic tracking.
Women in the ultra conservative country are already denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving.
But now women in oil rich kingdom are being spied on by an electronic system that picks-up any cross-border movements.
Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages if their women left the country - even if they are travelling together.
“The authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said columnist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the “state of slavery under which women are held” in the kingdom.
Saudi women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without

permission from their male guardian, usually husband or father, who must give consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
The move by the Saudi authorities was swiftly condemned on social network Twitter - with many criticising the crackdown.
“If I need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I’m either married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist,” tweeted a user called Hisham.
Saudi Arabia applies a strict interpretation of sharia, or Islamic law, and is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive.
In June 2011, female activists launched a campaign to defy the ban, with many arrested for doing so and forced to sign a pledge they will never drive again.
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