a minor i am trusted to make a life and death decisions for patients trusted to raise kids but i m not trusted to make my own decisions regarding my life and here s another woman who says a great company offers me a great job i couldn t take it because it s outside the country i couldn t travel because i m a girl another woman says here stop treating us as minors it s our choice. our decision we can handle the consequences and we can do it for the sake of a new modern saudi arabia and we re seeing that many of these women are tweeting in english some of them are protecting their identities but it really sending out really strong messages and we ve seen similar online complains in the past like the one to end the ban on women driving and they have been successful and now the debate is open again i m not are you saying people defending the system. as well of course i mean it is very entrenched in the society and some people in saudi arabia still defending idea that the world is not a fri
sake of a new modern saudi arabia and we re seeing that many of these women are tweeting in english some of them are protecting their identities but it really sending out really strong messages and we ve seen similar online come pains in the past like the one to end the ban on women driving and they have been successful and now the debate is open again and are you seeing people defending the system. as well of course i mean it is very entrenched in the society and some people in saudi arabia still defend the idea that the world is not a friendly place for women and that they should be protected through this guardianship system and here is a man who is a point who is making that point online saying you tried to get a saudi woman out of her home dignity and her honor to be an easy target of the fields of society is that violate freedom of people under the banner of freedom saudi women will remain a fortress against old the full slogans all over the world and of course there s
go home expressed to me that he was sad not being able to go home toe celebrate women driving, something that he had pushed for as an editor back in saudi arabia. he was seeing his friends being taken to jail. he talked to me about torture. that does not sound at all like a regime that cares about the welfare of people who dare even mildly criticize them. so sitting here right now potentially mourning my friend and a close colleague, a bright courageous colleague who didn t want to be a dissident, just a journalist, it s hard for me to take that as true. karen, we thank you for calling in and our thoughts are with you. and we can only imagine the pain that you guys are dealing with.
place of wanting to advise the crown prince. he didn t want to be known as this strident critic, even in our editing process, there were times where he said, i really don t want to personally insult anybody. i just really he agreed with a lot of the reforms, especially women driving, the lifting of the ban on cinemas. he just really felt like he had a duty to advise this young prince. do you believe the turkish officials who are concluding he has been killed? you know, we want to hope that he is still alive and with us and can come back to us and be safe. we had a lot of plans. we have a lot of plans to do so much more. we were publishing more in arabic. we are waiting, just like everybody else. there s a lot of conflicting reports, a lot of rumors. we are still hoping for the best.
that tells you something. that tells you these reforms were not really meant to be toward empowering women, towards more women rise in the country. if what was the reason given for arresting those women? i wish i know. what is going on? it does feel like the economic reforms are real. the diminish of the religious police is real. there has been the lifting of the ban on women driving. there are people who have been to conferences in saudi arabia say men and women mingle in a way never before and yet, bloggers are being arrested. yes. some of these women are being arrested. clergies and social media. so influentials. make sense of this for us. what is going on? it s freedom on my own terms is what they are saying is that i will sit the terms in what