Saudi King Cancels Flogging of Female Driver

A Saudi woman bedevilled to accept 10 lashes for active in the Kingdom has reportedly been accepted a abatement by King Abdullah. Thank God, the lashing of Shaima is cancelled. Thanks to our admired King,” tweeted Princess Ameerah Al Taweel, wife of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is the king’s nephew and the richest man in the Arab world. “I’m abiding all Saudi women will be so happy, I apperceive I am.A government official accepted the account to The Associated Press. Women are not accustomed to drive in the ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, and on Tuesday Shaima Jastaina, who is in her 30s, was begin guilty. The book accustomed common condemnation, abnormally because it came on the heels of a celebrated ameliorate just two canicule beforehand if King Abdullah appear women would be accustomed the appropriate to vote and run in borough elections. He aswell said women would be alleged to the Shura Council, which serves as an advising board. Alwaleed and I batten with Shaima, she was blessed and she said: “the King’s orders done the fears I lived with afterwards this biased sentence,”" Princess Ameerah after wrote on Twitter.