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| An empty road in Mina in Saudi Arabia during a rain storm. The kingdom has registered its first female lawyer. (AFP Photo) |
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Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia has registered its first female trainee advocate, paving the way
for women to practise as lawyers in the kingdom where strict Islamic Sharah law
applies, an activist said on Tuesday.
“The road
is open now to women to receive permits to practice as lawyers, after the
registration of Arwa al-Hujaili as the first trainee lawyer,” rights activist
Walid Abulkhair told AFP.
Abulkhair
posted on his Twitter account a copy of the justice ministry’s certificate of
Hujaili’s registration.
“The
(trainee) lawyer should be contracted by a lawyer who has been in service for
more than five years... and should train for no less than three years,” he
said.
A trainee
lawyer is allowed to practice, he said.
The
ministry’s move would boost the status of women in the ultra-conservative
kingdom, where females need the consent of their male guardians in most legal
procedures.
Women are
also banned from driving and have to cover from head to toe when in public.
In October,
the ministry said women lawyers would be allowed to plead cases in court
starting November 2012. But the promise did not materialize.
Women law
graduates launched a campaign in 2011 demanding that they be allowed to plead
in court.
Agence France-Presse
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