Let women drive, urges Saudi prince

AFP, RIYADH: An outspoken billionaire Saudi prince wants an “urgent” end to his country’s ban on women driving, saying overturning the law was a matter of women’s rights and economic necessity.
“Stop the debate: Time for women to drive,” Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on his official Twitter account, @Alwaleed_Talal.
Alwaleed is an unusually outspoken member of the Saudi royal family who holds no political posts but chairs Kingdom Holding Co., which has interests including US banking giant Citigroup and the Euro Disney theme park.
He is a longtime advocate of women’s rights in the Islamic kingdom, which has some of the world’s tightest restrictions on women and is the only country where they are not allowed to drive.
In conjunction with his short tweet, Alwaleed’s office issued an unusually long statement late Tuesday outlining his reasons for supporting an end to the ban.

 

Let women drive, urges Saudi prince

AFP, RIYADH: An outspoken billionaire Saudi prince wants an urgent end to his countrys ban on women driving, saying overturning the law was a matter of womens rights and economic necessity. Stop the debate: Time for women to drive, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on his official Twitter account, @Alwaleed_Talal. Alwaleed is an unusually outspoken member of the Saudi royal family who holds no political posts but chairs Kingdom Holding Co., which has interests including US banking giant Citigroup and the Euro Disney theme park. He is a longtime advocate of womens rights in the Islamic kingdom, which has some of the worlds tightest restrictions on women and is the only country where they are not allowed to drive. In conjunction with his short tweet, Alwaleeds office issued an unusually long statement late Tuesday outlining his reasons for supporting an end to the ban.