Electronic tracking: new constraint for Saudi women

Just while we are protesting Israel…

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November 22, 2012 01:06 PM (Last updated: November 22, 2012 03:11 PM)By Assaad Abboud

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Saudi women get into a taxi outside a shopping mall in Riyadh on June 22, 2012. (AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE)
Saudi women get into a taxi outside a shopping mall in Riyadh on June 22, 2012. (AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE)
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RIYADH: Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.

Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together.

Manal al-Sherif, who became the symbol of a campaign launched last year urging Saudi women to defy a driving ban, began spreading the information on Twitter, after she was alerted by a couple.

The husband, who was travelling with his wife, received a text message from the immigration authorities informing him that his wife had left the international airport in Riyadh.

“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 ultra-conservative kingdom.

Women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male guardian, who must give his consent by signing what is known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.

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3 Replies to “Electronic tracking: new constraint for Saudi women”

  1. Of course, just when you thought that Islam couldn’t get more big-brotherish, the Saudis go and do this.
    And this, of course folks, is the slave culture that we’re importing into our countries and using to replace our own free societies. Orwell warned us about stuff like this. If they track women in Saudiland then once they get their way over here, we’ll probably all be tagged.
    666 is just around the corner!

  2. Hey, isn’t this bid’ah, or innovation?
    Anyway, it would be nice to enslave Saudis with their own tricks. Overpopulation? Overconsumption? Saudis do both.