<p>Najla Hariri was arrested while driving to the office of her daughter, Dalia.<br />"My mother was taken to the police station," the daughter said.<br /><br />Since mid-May, Hariri who campaigns for women's rights, has driven around Jeddah several times without being arrested.<br /><br />She is among a group of activists who launched an Internet campaign on June 17 urging women to defy the ban on driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom.<br /><br />Since then, women regularly get behind the wheels of their cars, according to the activists.<br />The icon of the campaign, Manal al-Sherif, a 32-year-old computer security consultant, was arrested on May 22 and detained for 10 days after posting on YouTube a video of herself driving her car around the eastern city of Khobar.<br /><br />Five Saudi women were arrested at the wheels of their cars in late June in Jeddah.<br />Women in the kingdom who have the means hire drivers while others must depend on the goodwill of male relatives.<br /><br />They are also obliged to be veiled in public, and cannot travel without their husbands or a close male relative.Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive.</p>
<p>Najla Hariri was arrested while driving to the office of her daughter, Dalia.<br />"My mother was taken to the police station," the daughter said.<br /><br />Since mid-May, Hariri who campaigns for women's rights, has driven around Jeddah several times without being arrested.<br /><br />She is among a group of activists who launched an Internet campaign on June 17 urging women to defy the ban on driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom.<br /><br />Since then, women regularly get behind the wheels of their cars, according to the activists.<br />The icon of the campaign, Manal al-Sherif, a 32-year-old computer security consultant, was arrested on May 22 and detained for 10 days after posting on YouTube a video of herself driving her car around the eastern city of Khobar.<br /><br />Five Saudi women were arrested at the wheels of their cars in late June in Jeddah.<br />Women in the kingdom who have the means hire drivers while others must depend on the goodwill of male relatives.<br /><br />They are also obliged to be veiled in public, and cannot travel without their husbands or a close male relative.Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive.</p>