It’s not just in Saudi were women get roughly treated

Police officer, Wiley Willis, has been fired after an incident in which a female prisoner taken into custody on suspicion of DWI ended up lying on the floor at the police station in a pool of blood.The incident was “mostly” caught on tape, except for a brief period that led to the woman lying on [...]

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WHY DO WOMEN GET TREATED BADLY IN SAUDI ARABIA?

Brutal: Saudi law punishes ‘witches’ by beheading them – Post Media Reply
Saudi Arabia’s religious police plan to behead a woman accused of being a witch, a human rights group said yesterday.
Human Rights Watch has asked the country’s king to intervene over “absurd charges that have no basis in law”.
Fawza Falih was arrested and interrogated in [...]

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A woman jailed for 6 months and 200 lashes for being raped 14 times

A woman gets 200 lashes and sent to jail for 6 months for being gang raped 14 times 
(of course the saudis say it is the womans fault)

Saudi gang rape sentence ‘unjust’
A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law.
The [...]

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Saudi women are not even allowed to drive

my last post was about rights for women in saudi.
this post is about saudi women who are not allowed to drive
why treat them like 2nd class citizens. after all they are human beings are’nt they??

Saudi women want to drive!

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country [...]

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Womens rights in Saudia Arabia?? (none)

Saudi Daily Arab News: The Saudi Woman Is Always To Blame for Her Problems
In December 2007, the Saudi English-language daily Arab News published an op-ed by Dania Al-Ghalib titled “The Saudi Woman is Always Guilty.” In it, the author describes the condition of the Saudi woman, depicting her as born unwanted and held accountable for [...]

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