Saudi women News

Women in Saudi Arabia have been assured they can enjoy the spring air by riding bicycles, providing they adhere to modest dress codes and are in the presence of a male guardian.

Around 3,000 Saudis have put forth a petition to the Shura Consultative Council calling for debate on the status of the prohibition on women being permitted to drive.

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia authorities have introduced an electronic tracking system that alerts husbands and male guardians when a woman attempts to leave the country.

Saudi Arabia has reversed its decision banning Saudi women from competing in the London Olympics. The Saudi Embassy in London announced that women will be allowed to participate in the Olympics for the first time.

Three women from Saudi Arabia were barred from entering France when they refused to remove their face veils at Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday.

Riyad - Saudi Arabia has reneged on an agreement to allow women to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games, barely before the ink had time to dry on the paperwork.

Jeddah - Currently sporting events exclude women in Saudi Arabia from joining fans in male only venues. Saudi officials have announced that the new sports stadium due to be completed in Jeddah, in 2014, will admit women.

Riyadh - Saudi women with "sexy eyes" will soon have to cover them up in public. The government of Saudi Arabia has decided that its men would do better without the "tempting eyes" of attractive Saudi women in public places.

In a historic announcement made on Sunday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia declared that women will be allowed the right to vote and to participate in municipal elections.

In the midst of the Arab awakening, women fighting oppression—in Saudi or any other Muslim nation—is doomed to fade away into a dark night.