{"id":41655,"date":"2018-05-19T02:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/19\/saudi-arabia-womens-rights-activists-arrested-before-lifting-of-driving-ban\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T02:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:45:04","slug":"saudi-arabia-womens-rights-activists-arrested-before-lifting-of-driving-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41655","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia: women&#039;s rights activists arrested before lifting of driving ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven detainees reportedly include women who have long opposed the kingdom\u2019s conservative rules, including guardianship lawsSaudi authorities have arrested seven prominent women\u2019s rights advocates, just weeks before the kingdom\u2019s longstanding driving ban on women is set to be lifted, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.While the reasons behind the arrests are not clear, activists told HRW that in September 2017, \u201cthe royal court had called the country\u2019s prominent activists &#8230; and warned them not to speak to the media\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/may\/19\/saudi-arabia-womens-rights-activists-arrested-before-lifting-of-driving-ban\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia: women&#039;s rights activists arrested before lifting of driving ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven detainees reportedly include women who have long opposed the kingdom\u2019s conservative rules, including guardianship lawsSaudi authorities have arrested seven prominent women\u2019s rights advocates, just weeks before the kingdom\u2019s longstanding driving ban on women is set to be lifted, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.While the reasons behind the arrests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}