They were given the right to vote and run in municipal elections three years, and were given the right to be appointed to the kingdom’s consultative Shura Council. But Saudi Arabia will be the only country to send a team to the 2012 Olympics without a woman member.
A video showing a woman wearing nail polish in a mall was posted on YouTube last month. It shows the woman arguing with the religious police who ordered her to leave the mall because she was wearing nail polish. “I am staying, and I want to know what you are going to do about it,” she was heard as saying. “You are not in charge of me.” The Saudi women called the police to talk to the members.
The video has 1,800 “likes” and 7,000 “dislikes”.
