The day after al-Sharif's arrest, another woman was detained for driving a car | In December 2012, al-Sharif criticized an initiative by the Saudi government to inform husbands via when their wives or dependents leave the country, in accordance with a law making men the legal guardians of their wives |
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The struggle is to be continued… | February 3rd, 2012: Samar Badawi files the second lawsuit against the General Directorate of Traffic Police |
Nonetheless, she continued campaigning for Women2Drive and IAmMyOwnGuardian to end the male guardianship in her country | For her activism, she won the first Vaclav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent |
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On 26 May, authorities said that al-Sharif would remain in detention until 5 June 2011, according to | Until May 2012, she worked as an Information Security Consultant for , the Saudi national oil company |
On 25 January, confirmed that she was alive, and that the crash victim was an "unnamed member of a desert community" who was not involved in the female driving campaign.
16Al-Sharif was detained on 21 May 2011, released, and then rearrested the following day | She referred to 22 Indonesian women and named four women needing help and stated the amount of their debts |
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May 19th, 2011: I drove in al-Khobar and uploaded the video on YouTube | She also wrote for , a Saudi daily |