Police detained 12 women in various parts of the Kingdom for violating traffic regulations and instructions that prevent women from driving in Saudi Arabia, a local daily reported. Col. Salman Al-Jemiei, director of the Makkah Traffic Department, confirmed that security patrols arrested three Saudi women on Sunday, all of them in their 40s, for driving cars in different neighborhoods in Makkah. All the women were accompanied by younger brothers who are not over the age of 15, he said. The women were immediately detained and referred to authorities as per instructions issued to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution. Security authorities in Jeddah also arrested two women on Sunday in Al-Samer district. Another woman was also arrested on the Jeddah-Makkah Expressway.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:52:37 +0000
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