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Jailed Saudi woman driver to be released on bail
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Saudi authorities made a decision on Monday to free on bail Manal al-Sharif. She was jailed for 10 days for breaking the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on women driving. "We were informed today of the decision to free Manal on bail. The procedural steps towards her release are under way," Middle-east-online.com quotes the lawyer Adnan al-Saleh as saying. Sharif, a 32-year-old computer-security consultant, was detained on May 22 after posting on YouTube a video of herself behind the wheel driving around the eastern Saudi city of Khobar. Women in Saudi Arabia without the means to hire a driver must depend on the goodwill of male family members to give them ride.