Saudi Arabia has implemented an electronic tracking system
to monitor women and inform their husbands if they leave the country.
According to an Agence France-Press story, a new system
implemented last week sends Saudi husbands text messages from the Saudi
immigration agency when their wives are flying out of King Khaled International
Airport, near Riyahd.
And this system is
operational for all dependents (children, women, and foreign workers).
Saudi Arabia, which ranked second worst in a Thomson Reuters
global survey on women’s rights in mid 2012,
is a notoriously repressive country.
•Women are not allowed to leave the country without signed
permission from their husbands.
•Women are banned from driving,
•Required to have a male guardian,
•just received the right to vote in municipal elections last
year,
and must cover most of their bodies, traditionally with a
burqa or niqab.
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