Stories and News No. 348 Manal Al-Sharif is an activist woman fighting for the rights of women in Saudi Arabia. She was arrested for violating the ban on women driving uploading to YouTube a video of her on a car: The Story: Manal Al-Sharif is free to drive. It would be as part of her rights. She is adult and capable of discernment. An Italian macho motto says: Woman driving, a constant danger. Well, apart from such ‘clever’ proverbs, as a woman, Manal is free to drive for a fact of simple logic: the logic of the facts. We have just take a look, even fast, to the last thirty years... Simply watching the consequences of driving by many men. What good has the government by a man as Saddam Hussein brought to his country? And what will a man like Gaddafi leave to his fellows? What have Egyptian people tolerated before man Mubarak’s end? And as for Tunisian people until being free of the man Ben Ali? What did Arab people gain through the passage on this earth - real or perceived – by
by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher