The organization of human rights Human Rights Watch has asked the Saudi authorities to release imprisoned women after driving a car in the country, something that the regime bans women-and whose exploits, hung on the Internet video channel YouTube to encourage other fellow, has received more than half a million visits.
The woman, Manal al-Sharif, ARAMCO company employee, was arrested a first time on May 21 by officers from the traffic police and the religious police as he drove through the city of Khobar, but was released shortly thereafter. The next day was back behind the wheel, costing him the second arrest.
Al Sharif, imprisoned in Dammam prison, as reported by another inmate to HRW, is accused of "tarnishing" the reputation of Saudi Arabia abroad and "shake" to the public. "Stop for a woman to relocate her family at the wheel of a car and display it after the Internet puts Saudi Arabia at the sentencing, and indeed the joke, the whole world," said the researcher at Human Rights Watch Middle East, Christoph Wilcke.
In Saudi Arabia there is no written law prohibiting lead women, but the regime's leading clerics have issued several fatwas, religious rules, in this regard. In practice, the authorities prohibit driving to the citizens and deny them the right to obtain a driver's license. A group of women carried out a campaign Women2drive to make getting behind the wheel. 
The woman, Manal al-Sharif, ARAMCO company employee, was arrested a first time on May 21 by officers from the traffic police and the religious police as he drove through the city of Khobar, but was released shortly thereafter. The next day was back behind the wheel, costing him the second arrest.
Al Sharif, imprisoned in Dammam prison, as reported by another inmate to HRW, is accused of "tarnishing" the reputation of Saudi Arabia abroad and "shake" to the public. "Stop for a woman to relocate her family at the wheel of a car and display it after the Internet puts Saudi Arabia at the sentencing, and indeed the joke, the whole world," said the researcher at Human Rights Watch Middle East, Christoph Wilcke.
In Saudi Arabia there is no written law prohibiting lead women, but the regime's leading clerics have issued several fatwas, religious rules, in this regard. In practice, the authorities prohibit driving to the citizens and deny them the right to obtain a driver's license. A group of women carried out a campaign Women2drive to make getting behind the wheel.
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