Wajiha al-Huweidar, the 45-year-old writer of Saudi Arab was held by the police as she tried to voice out for more rights for her fellow sisters.
Huweidar staged an out-of-the place demonstration in one of the highly conservative Islamic nation where women rights are always considered as the most negligible issue. However, her placard agenda appealing His Majesty King Abdullah for more rights for women was not at all against human rights, as history of the Middle East region very well stands for the treatment that women of the nation so far has been subjected to.
The writer’s protest by no means could account for her arrest by the police as she did what she thought was right for the greater cause of helping the Saudi women community.
If we go through this line, we will all agree with what she did:
Huweidar was even asked to sign a pledge so that she does not repeat any such offence again: and paradoxically as if, women do not have any say of her own, a so-called male relative was called to sign the pledge for her.A year after his (King Abdullah’s) enthronement and after promising us more rights, the picture on women’s rights remains very opaque.
This attitude of the Police department of Saudi Arabia itself states loud and clears about the position of women.
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