‘Women are free to leave at any time, whether to attend school, employment, or other personal activities, and may exit permanently anytime they wish with no need of approval from a guardian or family member.’
A Saudi government spokesman told The Guardian. Campaigners challenge the assertions, however, citing women who have personally used the facilities.
Should a male guardian refuse or be unable to release them, the authorities will relocate them to a comparable “guest” facility from where they will likewise need the permission of a male guardian or relative to depart.
Under Saudi Arabia’s ‘ridiculous’ system, Dr. Aldossari clarified, this responsibility is ‘inherited’. Should a woman’s father or spouse prove absent, her son may find himself in charge of his mother.
In some terrible instances, women have reportedly been put to facilities following reports of men sexually mistreating them at home.
‘She ends herself in the circumstance that the abuser has to release her,’ she remarked.
