Saudi women push challenge to driving ban

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Saudi women push challenge to driving ban

February 05, 2012 09:31 AM

Saudi Arabian women, seeking a job, talk with recruiters during a job fair in Riyadh January 25, 2012. It is Women's Day at the first of a series of job fairs launched by the Saudi government this year to find employment for its citizens. In coming months the scheme aims to arrange interviews for 15,000 men and women out of 100,000 applicants, holding similar fairs in the cities of Jeddah and Dammam. Picture taken January 25, 2012. To match Mideast Money SAUDI-ECONOMY/REFORMS REUTERS/ Strin

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi women leading a campaign against the kingdom's ban on female driving are calling on the courts to take up their lawsuits demanding the right to drive.

Manal al-Sherif said Sunday that she and another woman activist are urging judicial authorities to being proceedings on complaints they lodged after being refused driver's licenses.

Al-Sherif says she filed her suit in November and it was transferred to the Interior Ministry.

Al-Sherif was detained for nearly two weeks last year after posting an online video of herself driving. It helped launch wider protests.

No laws prohibit women from driving, but conservative religious edicts have banned it and officials comply with those.

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