(Reuters photo)RIYADH: An 18-year-old Saudi woman's flight from what she said was an abusive family has rallied opposition to the kingdom's male guardianship system, still a major constraint on women despite the conservative Muslim country's efforts to open up. Many activists are calling for an end to the guardianship system, which has been chipped away at slowly over the years but remains in force. Amid global outrage at Saudi Arabia over last year's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Ms Qanun's tweets from Bangkok airport sparked an online campaign. "Remove guardianship and we won't all migrate" trended this week on Twitter in Saudi Arabia. Some Saudi women do not want to wait.

Source: Bangkok Post January 11, 2019 11:03 UTC