Saudi Arabia’s religious police, the Muttawa, continue to subject women to discrimination, harassment, and abuse, according to reports received by Yakin Erturk, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, during her recent visit to the Wahhabist kingdom. 

Erturk said that while some Saudi women she met during her visit at the government’s invitation expressed satisfaction with their lives, ‘others have raised concerns of serious levels of discriminatory practices against women that compromise their rights and dignity as full human beings.’

Others related ‘the domestic abuse they systematically encounter with little prospect of redress.’

Ms Ertuk also discovered that there is no definite timeframe for removing the legal prohibition on women driving.

h/t: International Christian Concern

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