Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on women driving and by the apologists of this despotic state as a "great" reform, yet women in Saudi Arabia still live under the supervision of a male guardian whose permission they need to marry or travel abroad.
"Imagine your son becomes your guardian," Manal al-Sharif, jailed for filming a video of herself driving in Saudi Arabia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "No matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free. While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail."
"Imagine your son becomes your guardian," Manal al-Sharif, jailed for filming a video of herself driving in Saudi Arabia told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "No matter my capabilities as a woman, I am still enslaved to somebody else. Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free. While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail."
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