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It’s what happens to you if you are a woman and you try to enter Saudi Arabia at the wheel of car. It is, after all, the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. Until six hours ago, Loujain Hathloul had been tweeting from the border point with Saudi Arabia’s next door neighbor, but now there is silence. Loujain, who is Saudi, said she had been held there a day. Activists said she was arrested on Monday afternoon, but the interior ministry did not immediately comment on her case. “They don’t want her to come because she is a woman driver,” one activist told AFP, asking to remain anonymous. “The customs (department) have no right to prevent me from entering even if in their opinion I am ‘a violator’ because I am Saudi,” Hathloul had tweeted on Monday morning.
