FILE - In this March 29, 2014 file photo, Aziza al-Yousef drives a car on a highway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving. The women activists had persistently called for the right to drive, but stressed that this was only the first step toward full rights. The stunning arrests come just six weeks before Saudi Arabia is set to lift the world’s only ban on women driving next month. Activists say writer Mohammed al-Rabea and lawyer Ibrahim al-Mudaimigh, two men who worked to support women’s rights campaigners, are also among the seven detained. In recent weeks, activists say several women’s rights campaigners were also banned from traveling abroad.

Source: Washington Post May 19, 2018 07:50 UTC