Some also fear that it gives husbands a chance to betray and agree with the assertion that it creates sedition in society.
This will create sedition … I agree that there are already different kinds of sedition we see every day, but the right place for a woman is her house; this will really save her from what is happening in the outside world.
The Saudi economic newspaper El-Iqtisadiah ran a front-page news story suggesting that women's driving is just a luxury rather than a necessity and that protesters against the ban seek to undermine the kingdom's stability and create sedition.
"The rampant and indiscriminate use of the Sedition Act... functions as a catch-all provision to target all and sundry for anything that is remotely contentious, thus stifling democratic norms and creating a climate of fear," he said.
It has created what Roy rightly describes as "panic about many voices", and the threat of charging her with sedition, she says, "is meant to frighten the civil rights groups and young journalists into keeping quiet".
He may be a sympathiser (of Naxalites) but it did not make him guilty of sedition.
Someone convicted of sedition?
Ardently opposes the Sedition Act.
