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Saudi Arabia rules restrict women’s rights in many ways. Women have no rights in marriage, divorce, child custody, property ownership. They have no right to make any kind of decisions in the family. Women also don’t have the right to pick their jobs and education. Its also been reported that there has been many cases of domestic violence against women.

Women also have few Civil Liberties they cant leave the own local neighborhood. They can only leave if they have their Mahram with them. Only with their Mahram permission women can travel by airplane. Women are restricted from being in any physical contact with a male not related to them. Women can even vote or be elected to any political group.

Mahram- The male that the women is married to.

__**First hand accounts**__

In Saudi Arabia a 37 year old American business women was arrested by Saudi Arabian religious police for sitting with a man. She was married with children. The day Yara was released from jail she was crying and bruised the day she was freed from jail. She also said she was striped searched and threatened, and said that the Mutaween the Kingdoms police forced her to sign false confessions. Some of the things she told reporters were that:

“They took me into a filthy bathroom, full of water and dirt. They made me take off my clothes and squat and they threw my clothes in this slush and made me put them back on.” and said she was then taken before a judge.

“He said 'You are sinful and you are going to burn in hell'. she then said that she had given up and that she felt hopeless.

Her husband used his political contacts to find out where Yara was, and had her released from jail.

Discrimination of women