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Saudi Woman spared lashes

by YankeeJim | September 28, 2011 at 03:59 pm

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No Driving

The Saudi King announced a few days ago that women will be given the right to vote in 2015. Some lady jumped the gun and took a car to go shopping. Women driving are not aloud, yet. The King hasn’t permitted it.

He said they have to have proper training in how to apply makeup while steering and looking into the review mirror.

She was up for 10 lashes for the driving offense. Instead, she was spared and ordered to cover her body completely with a black burka and to go home.

“Saudi king saves woman driver from 10 lashes

Saudi King Abdullah has overturned a court verdict that sentenced a Saudi woman to be lashed 10 times for defying the kingdom's ban on women driving.

12:50AM BST 29 Sep 2011

The revelation was made by a government official, who asked to remain anonymous, and who would not reveal the king's reasons for intervening in the case.

A day earlier, a Saudi court found Shaima Jastaina guilty of violating the driving ban, and sentenced her to 10 lashes, igniting a firestorm in the conservative Muslim kingdom.

It was the first time a legal punishment had been handed down for breaking the longtime ban in the ultraconservative Muslim nation. No laws prohibit women from driving, but conservative religious edicts have banned it.

Earlier this week, King Abdullah announced that women will have the right to vote and run in the country's 2015 local elections.”