{"id":66223,"date":"2012-06-16T13:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=66223"},"modified":"2012-06-16T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:41:35","slug":"saudi-women-urged-to-flout-driving-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/international-news\/saudi-women-urged-to-flout-driving-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi women urged to flout driving ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66224\" title=\"muslim woman driving\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/muslim-woman-driving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/muslim-woman-driving.jpg 186w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/muslim-woman-driving-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/>Activists on Friday urged women to get behind the wheel for Sunday\u2019s first anniversary of the Women2Drive campaign, which resulted in the arrest of people defying Saudi Arabia\u2019s ban on women drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to ending the ban imposed on women driving in Saudi Arabia starts with women themselves,\u201d said a statement from the Women2Drive initiative, received by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>It urged \u201cwomen who hold driving licences [from abroad] to drive on the anniversary day, June 17, and document their acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/saudi-arabia\/saudi-women-urged-to-flout-driving-ban-1.1036580\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activists on Friday urged women to get behind the wheel for Sunday\u2019s first anniversary of the Women2Drive campaign, which resulted in the arrest of people defying Saudi Arabia\u2019s ban on women drivers. \u201cThe key to ending the ban imposed on&#8230;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":66224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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