News: Saudi Arabia jails man for saying women shudnt be controlled

Amoeba

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Saudi Arabia jails man for saying men shouldn't be able to control women

Man said he launched campaign after finding some 'female relatives were facing injustice at the hands of their families'

A Saudi man has been jailed for a year after he called for an end to the ultra-conservative Islamic kingdom's male guardianship system.

The unnamed man was also fined 30,000 riyals (£6,500) after being convicted of "inciting to end guardianship of women", the daily Okaz newspaper reported.

He was arrested while putting up posters inside mosques which called for the government to abolish strict rules giving men control over women.

The man admitted to pinning up posters in several mosques and said he solely launched an "awareness campaign" after finding some "female relatives were facing injustice at the hands of their families," the daily newspaper said, according to the AFP news agency.

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This is a new low and the fact that the US is best buds w/ SA is... embarrassing

Vrx.

Oil always wins

hitmebby1morex

A real feminist. A king. free him.

Dana Scully

Sad how moral values can be so backwards in the other side of the globe.

Instead of valuing a man for standing up to other humans, they lock him up.

Ryuuchan_X

So disgusting. Well at least they didn't kill him.

RainDreamer

Wtf ,you can even be jailed for just merely SAYING women should be free? I feel like we live in different times on the same world

rihannabiggestfan

That man should move to a more progressive country tbh

FBF

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Originally posted by RainDreamer

Wtf ,you can even be jailed for just merely SAYING women should be free? I feel like we live in different times on the same world

We actually really do. Not just "morally" too.

T0M

And yet the UN elected Saudi Arabia to be on the Human Rights Council

the UN is trash and so does SA

priest

i'm fine with the US having relations with SA tbh. you cant cut ties just because of cultural differences like this. if the saudi people want change it isnt for us to some how impose it on them or anything. changes socially should sprout organically and naturally from within a country, not from without.

"morals" are subjective unfortunately

LustSpell

The fact that oil can make things like this go away, disgusting

Iris

He used "islamophobic" rhetoric and was jailed as a result. What's new?

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Originally posted by T0M

And yet the UN elected Saudi Arabia to be on the Human Rights Council

the UN is trash and so does SA

Angry Pro-Palestinian attempting to clock you in 3, 2, 1 ....

M André

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Originally posted by priest

i'm fine with the US having relations with SA tbh. you cant cut ties just because of cultural differences like this. if the saudi people want change it isnt for us to some how impose it on them or anything. changes socially should sprout organically and naturally from within a country, not from without.

"morals" are subjective unfortunately

Yeah, we should wait until all those people actually end up taking the leaders and killing all of them like in the French Revolution.
And lol at the morals are subjective thing

I guess we all should live in anarchy and let everyone do their own thing right?

AvrilLaQueen

when religion has more power than freedom... disgusting!

cancer

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Originally posted by rihannabiggestfan

That man should move to a more progressive country tbh

The way you're proposing this idea as if it's so easy to achieve

OT: What else can I say other than "I'm not surprised"? It's Saudi Arabia we're talking about.

Sunshine.

Is our oil prices worth women's freedom?

Many Americans would just say let them conduct their country how they want so we don't reap the economic fallout.

Letters From Adi

No wonder I use a bicycle.

Ryan Rivers

When Queen Elizabeth greets the Saudi kings at meetings/jubilees and whatnot. I just get all these questions in my head. What are both parties thinking at that moment?

The Unforgiving

It's almost 2017 ffs

Dessy Fenix

And people were saying SA was progressive for women a month ago