{"id":32719,"date":"2012-11-27T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32719"},"modified":"2012-11-27T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T21:17:12","slug":"discovery-news-saudi-arabian-women-tracked-with-text-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/27\/discovery-news-saudi-arabian-women-tracked-with-text-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery News: SAUDI ARABIAN WOMEN TRACKED WITH TEXT ALERTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the repression of women, you&#8217;d be hard pressed to find a more misogynistic place than Saudi Arabia. Women there are, among other things, prohibited from voting (until 2015), driving a car and working in most places.<\/p>\n<p>To leave the country, Saudi women must present written permission from their male guardians, even if they&#8217;re traveling together. Now, to add insult to injury, male guardians will also receive a text message whenever &#8220;their&#8221; women leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>The kingdom&#8217;s interior ministry introduced the electronic tracking system back in April in an effort to create a modern e-government plan that would eliminate the infamous permission slip. Texts were originally sent to male guardians who opted into the system, but now are being sent to all and sundry.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/saudi-arabian-women-tracked-text-message-121127.html\" title=\"Saudi Arabian Women\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the repression of women, you&#8217;d be hard pressed to find a more misogynistic place than Saudi Arabia. Women there are, among other things, prohibited from voting (until 2015), driving a car and working in most places. To leave the country, Saudi women must present written permission from their male guardians, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32720,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32719\/revisions\/32720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}