SAUDI WOMEN BEING ELECTRONICALLY TRACKED
HUSBANDS in Saudi Arabia are now monitoring
their wives' movements out of the country using electronic tracking.
Women in
the ultra conservative country are already denied the right to travel without
consent from their male guardians and banned from driving.
But now
women in oil rich kingdom are being spied on by an electronic system that
picks-up any cross-border movements.
Since
last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages if their
women left the country - even if they are travelling together.
“The
authorities are using technology to monitor women,” said columnist Badriya
al-Bishr, who criticized the “state of slavery under which women are held” in
the kingdom.
Saudi
women are not allowed to leave the kingdom without permission from their male
guardian, usually husband or father, who must give consent by signing what is
known as the “yellow sheet” at the airport or border.
The move
by the Saudi authorities was swiftly condemned on social network Twitter - with
many criticising the crackdown.
“If I
need an SMS to let me know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I’m either
married to the wrong woman or need a psychiatrist,” tweeted a user called
Hisham.
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