Kuwaiti woman arrested for driving in Saudi Arabia: report

World News

Kuwait: A Kuwaiti lady was captured in Saudi Arabia for attempting to drive her father to clinic, a Kuwaiti daily paper gave an account of Sunday, a week after Saudi ladies challenged against a boycott on female
drivers. Kuwaiti ladies are allowed to drive in their nation and delight in much a larger number of rights than those in Saudi Arabia, who are not permitted to travel abroad, open a financial balance or work without consent from a male relative. The English dialect Kuwait Times said the lady was driving in a zone just over the fringe, with her father in the traveler seat, when she was ceased by police. Kuwaitis and Saudi locals consistently cross the outskirt and groups living along the boondocks are frequently a mixof individuals from both nations. The lady, who said her diabetic father couldn't drive and required to be taken to clinic for medication, is, no doubt held in care pending an examination, the paper said, refering to police. The paper did not propose that the lady was challenging Saudi Arabia's boycott on female drivers. Saudi police in the bordertown al-Khafji alluded calls to the nearby movement police, who couldn't be arrived at for remark. Authorities in the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said they couldn't remark on reports of episodes outside Kuwait. Kuwaiti ladies picked up the right to vote and stand for political office in 2005 after years of battling and a push by senior controlling relatives. Progressive parts of the Kuwaiti parliament, incorporating some who draw on Saudi Arabia's grim understanding of Islam, had formerly obstructed the changes, expression that Islamic law forestalled ladies from administration positions. In Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah has pushed a few mindful changes to give ladies more vocation chances and a more stupendous open voice, however has frequently confronted safety from senior church. (Reuters