Saudi Arabia Women's Rights

• Jailed Saudi women activists stand trial, diplomats barred from entering court

  More than a dozen diplomats from the United States and Europe were barred from entering the court.

  World

  Mar 13, 2019
  
• Calls for Apple, Google to remove app that monitors, restricts Saudi women’s travel

  The free app, created by the Saudi government, allows men to update or withdraw permissions for their wives and female relatives to travel internationally.

  Tech

  Feb 13, 2019
  
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• Female Saudi activists facing conditions akin to torture in jail, U.K. MPs say

  Amnesty International said last month it had documented 10 cases of torture and abuse, including sexual harassment, electrocution, flogging and death threats.

  Politics

  Feb 4, 2019
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• Saudi women must be notified of divorce via text message, new law says

  Women in Saudi Arabia will be notified by text message if they are divorced under a new law designed to protect them from having their marriage ended without their knowledge.

  World

  Jan 7, 2019
• Saudi woman, 18, detained at Thai airport, fears she will be killed if deported home

  Rahaf Al-Qunun said she fears her family will kill her if she is forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia.

  World

  Jan 6, 2019
• ‘What are we? A banana republic?’: Saudi Arabia wants apology from Canada over diplomatic row

  In August, Saudi Arabia froze new trade with Canada, blocked grain imports, expelled Canada's ambassador and ordered all Saudi students home after Ottawa called for the release of activists detained for urging more rights for women.

  Canada

  Sep 27, 2018
• Saudi Arabia gave ‘citizenship’ to a robot named Sophia, and Saudi women aren’t amused

  Saudi women need permission from a male family member to study abroad and travel, and cannot pass on citizenship to their children if they're married to a foreigner.

  Tech

  Nov 4, 2017
• Saudi women will be allowed into sports stadiums starting 2018

  The decision marks another incremental step toward greater women’s rights in the kingdom.

  World

  Oct 30, 2017