Saudi Arabia is to lift laws that ban women from travelling without a man (GGT)

[GennGreymane]

un altered title
"Saudi Arabia is to lift laws that ban women from travelling without a man's permission" (did not fit in, cut permission in half)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10308153.html

audi Arabia is considering plans to lift restrictions on women travelling without a man’s permission, in a series of “modernising” reforms that have proved controversial in the kingdom.

Current laws require women below the age of 45 to provide proof they have the approval of their male guardian or “mahram” before travelling, even locally, and that they are accompanied at all times.

But at the Jeddah launch of a new campaign entitled “Your Passport, Your Identity”, the director general of the kingdom’s passport office said new rules would assess travel documents based on reason for travel, not age.

Major General Sulaiman al-Yahya said new regulations were being drafted that would also mean women no longer have to apply for permission prior to travel from various government ministries – bringing laws in line with those of “advanced countries”, he said.


The impending announcement has nonetheless been met with scepticism by Saudi social media users, who mocked the existing rules in their thousands under a hashtag that read “travel controls on Saudi women”.

There are concerns that the new rules still require women to have chaperones at all times, and that the modernisation will just come in the form of more advanced methods of control.

According to a translation on Stepfeed, one user sarcastically suggested new regulations might include “a police officer to travel with every woman and electronic chips to keep track of their locations”.

Others suggested the new laws would not be feared by “women who have nothing to hide”.

At the press conference, Al-Yahya also said the department was considering issuing ID cards to accompany traditional travel permits.

And he said the department was working in tandem with the ministry for labour to ensure that migrant workers are fingerprinted so they can’t “run away” from their employers. The measure was ostensibly designed “to prevent the growth of the black market”.

[Breccia]

Way to go Saudi Arabia! Welcome to the 19th century!

[Tradewind]

What a world of different cultures. I would give anything to drive without a woman in the car nagging and backseat driving.

"you shoulda turned there"
"I wanna stop at this store in this place that you need to immediately go into across 2 lanes"
"stop hitting those pedestrians"

Time for riots in Dubai!

Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia...?

[mickybrighteyes]

Time for riots in Dubai!

the most expensive riots in the world.....

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Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia...?

also this.... it might have been a few years back but the modern day map has it well outside teh borders of saudi arabia

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Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia...?

Quantum state muslims.

[Tradewind]

Quantum state muslims.

So many terrible jokes just manifested that I cannot repeat.

[Adam Jensen]

Saudi Arabia is considering plans to lift restrictions on women travelling without a man’s permission, in a series of “modernising” reforms that have proved controversial in the kingdom.

The fuck is wrong with a country where the decision whether or not women can travel unaccompanied is "controversial?"

How the hell is so much of our planet still centuries behind the developed world?

[TheEaterofSouls]

Man this country is fucked up. And people complain about the lack of female representation in the media. Well atleast your not man slaves.

[shahaodou]

I would give anything to drive without a woman in the car nagging and backseat driving.

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The fuck is wrong with a country where the decision whether or not women can travel unaccompanied is "controversial?"

How the hell is so much of our planet still centuries behind the developed world?

Saudi Arabia's education system has a lot of religious indoctrination. In fact, there's so much of it that the reason why Saudi Arabia is so dependant on foreign people to come work is that once Saudi citizens graduate from school they don't possess the skills to become things like engineers. They simply have put things like math aside to study religion. So this doesn't surprise me at all...

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Man this country is fucked up. And people complain about the lack of female representation in the media. Well atleast your not man slaves.

Yeah, women should be so grateful that they're not manslaves.

[Deleted]

Way to go Saudi Arabia! Welcome to the 19th century!

They'll get to the 21st century one day. Inshallah.

[Deleted]

What a world of different cultures. I would give anything to drive without a woman in the car nagging and backseat driving.

"you shoulda turned there"
"I wanna stop at this store in this place that you need to immediately go into across 2 lanes"
"stop hitting those pedestrians"



Dubai is not in Saudi Arabia...?

As if the women get to complain, they'll probably get smacked if they think about trying.