Riyadh, May 29: Saudi police arrested another woman for defying a ban on female driving in the conservative Gulf Kingdom although she told them she badly needed to shop, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Traffic police chased and stopped the woman as she drove her car through the streets of the southern town of Bisha.
“They arrested her and took her to the police station…she told them that she drove the car because she needed to shop and that her driver was away in his country for a holiday,” Sabq Arabic language daily said.
The unnamed lady is the third woman to be arrested in Saudi Arabia in a few days for defying a long-standing ban on driving cars by women.
–Agencies