OVER coffee and date cakes, the women gathered to celebrate the afternoon 18 years ago when they got into cars and drove through the streets of Riyadh, a stunning defiance of Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers.
They have only one regret: the ban remains.
The protest, which made headlines around the world, cost the 47 female drivers and passengers dearly. They were arrested, lost their jobs for two and a half years, banned from travel for a year and condemned by the powerful clergy as harlots.
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