Agreed. Yet, there will be prices to pay. Last December the courts sentenced a man caught denouncing the wilaya [guardianship rules] on social media to a year

Agreed. Yet, there will be prices to pay. Last December the courts sentenced a man caught denouncing the wilaya [guardianship rules] on social media to a year in jail. Another Saudi study, at a university in Mecca, acknowledged that some runaways might be fleeing physical abuse, but said that most had been influenced by the “misuse of social media, copying other cultures and weak beliefs”.