Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women 591
dsinc writes "Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements. Since last week, Saudi women's male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together. 'The authorities are using technology to monitor women,' said columnist Badriya al-Bishr, who criticised the 'state of slavery under which women are held' in the ultra-conservative kingdom. Women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male guardian, who must give his consent by signing what is known as the 'yellow sheet' at the airport or border."
View from common person (Score:1, Funny)
"heh, let's just tell all of their women to come to the West where they will be appreciated." said a John Forbes from Chicago Illinois while he was filling up his SUV with 60 gallons of premium gas.
Re:Apartheid (Score:5, Funny)
I guess we will buy more oil from them in the future. That'll teach them a lesson!
Allies... (Score:0, Funny)
Saudia Ararbia now officially supports mysogyny, and Israel is committed to ethnic cleansing. China is totalitarian and the biggest carbon polluter, but they're even more capitalist than the U.S. which they supply with all its cheap plastic crap. Pakistan is a rogue nuclear proliferator, and they harbored Osama bin Laden. Egypt is reformed, but they're head of state just declared his edicts to be above judicial review. Sout Korea is as big as 'currency manipulator' as China.
What's the world's legacy Super Power to do when it's nearly impossible to cogently define what it takes to be a U.S. ally? Has the world become one large military market place of ideas?
you know, if this happened in the west... (Score:5, Funny)
it could actually start a ...
pussy riot!
(what? WHAT?? someone had to say it!)
Re:Saudi Arabia (Score:5, Funny)
If I had to guess, I'd say ash and felt?
Re:to the men of Saudi Arabia (Score:5, Funny)
You are very courageous behind that keyboard, young master.
Next time tell this to a Saudi man in a face.