Saudi Women Allowed to Ride Bicycles in Public, Al-Yaum Says

Saudi Arabian women are allowed to ride bicycles in public so long as they are still accompanied by a male guardian and wear “fully modest dress,” the al-Yaum newspaper reported on its website.

The male guardian is also necessary in the event the women have an accident while riding the bicycle, the newspaper said, citing an unidentified official from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the country’s religious police.