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.jpg) Saudi Arabia has banned women from entering shops selling musical instruments amid continued violation of women’s rights in the Arab kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has ordered a number of music shops across the kingdom to install a sign banning women from entering, the Arabic-language Al-Hayat newspaper reported.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are prohibited from driving. The ban is not enforced by law but is a religious fatwa imposed by the country's Wahhabi clerics.
If women get behind the wheel in the kingdom, they may be arrested, sent to court and even flogged. In 2011, a Saudi woman was jailed after she posted a video of herself driving in the Saudi city of Khobar on YouTube.
The Saudi women are also barred from doing sports activities in public girls’ schools.
According to Kingdom’s Education Ministry, the schools can hold sports activities in accordance with the rules of Sharia law and students must adhere to "decent dress" codes.
Last year, Human Rights Watch called on the Saudi government to set a curriculum for physical education for girls and to launch a public outreach campaign about girls' rights to physical education.
Meanwhile, Saudi women have mounted several campaigns to try and overturn the ban in recent years.
(Source: Press TV)
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