Saudi Arabia has arrested five women for getting behind the wheel in defiance of a ban on female drivers in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, media outlets and activists said Wednesday.
"A girl who was driving, accompanied by her brother in Jeddah's southern neighbourhood of Al-Suleymania, was arrested," Saudi news website Sabq.org reported.
"The two were surrounded by four police patrols who asked for their identities then took them to a police station, where they were interrogated," said the website. [AFP] Read more
