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Subject: Get real
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tevin777 29.09.11 - 02:14pm
CAIRO: A Saudi woman has been sentenced to be lashed 10 times with a whip for defying the kingdom's prohibition on female drivers, the first time a legal punishment has been handed down for a violation of the longtime ban in the ultraconservative Muslim nation. * +

tevin777 29.09.11 - 02:14pm
Normally, police just stop female drivers, question them and let them go after they sign a pledge not to drive again. But dozens of women have continued to take to the roads since June in a campaign to break the taboo. * +

tevin777 29.09.11 - 02:15pm
Making Tuesday's sentence all the more upsetting to activists is that it came just two days after King Abdullah promised to protect women's rights and decreed that women would be allowed to participate in municipal elections in 2015. Abdullah also promised to appoint women to a currently all-male advisory body known as the Shura Council. * +

tevin777 29.09.11 - 02:16pm
I gues 1st 4 women insurance company wont get any clients in that country. * +

beige1 29.09.11 - 02:17pm
Thank flock i don't live there. * +

laylalay 29.09.11 - 02:35pm
give them time,this is new to them.sorry to the woman who was lashed * +

so_sassy 29.09.11 - 02:45pm
yeah im glad i dont live there, despite not driving. * +

fatz 29.09.11 - 03:03pm
BREAKING NEWS: ok my bad its old news the judgement on that lady was overturned today by the king. so yeah some may argue why hand down the sentce then overturn well atleast its a small step in the right direction. in time things will change there for the better. * +

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