(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Twitter and facebook is overflowing with videos of Saudi women driving, which they posted to put their message across social networking sites with the aim of availing permission to drive legally in Saudi Arabia.
"We want women from today to begin exercising their rights,'' Wajeha al-Huwaidar, a Saudi womens' rights activist, said.
She has posted internet clips of herself driving in 2008.
"Today on the roads is just the opening in a long campaign," she said. "We will not go back.''
A campaign was launched by the conservatives on Facebook, threatening to beat up those who escorted women to drive.
Last month Manal al-Sharif, a female Saudi activist who had posted a video of herself driving around the eastern city of Khobar while chatting with a friend, was arrested and the video she put up was removed from Youtube. The Facebook page she created calling on Saudi women to collectively defy the driving ban on June 17 was removed as well.
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