This weekend, Manal al-Sharif and her brother were arrested by Saudi authorities after posted a video on YouTube (has hence been made private) that shows her driving a car and convincing others to, on June 17th, in protest of Saudi Arabia’s ban against women driving.

Sharif is one of the organizers of Women2Drive, a right-to-drive campaign to be launched on the 17th. Interestingly enough, there is no actual law that bans women from driving, but citizens have to use locally issued licenses that can’t be issued to women — so Women2Drive are telling their followers to use foreign-issued licenses. Nesrine Malik at the Guardian writes about the campaign and her own experience ...