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RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi authorities plan to allow women to join the police force in the conservative Gulf state where the sexes are segregated, a newspaper reported on Friday. Al-Watan said the Saudi security department was planning to set up a women's police academy. Its graduates would be recruited to women-only departments of public institutions. The Saudi police force is men-only but women helpers are employed in women's prisons and at airports to search female passengers. Women are not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and their job prospects are restricted mainly to medicine or teaching because of the segregation rules, under the strict version of Islam practiced in the oil-rich kingdom. On September 27th , Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia of practicing almost total discrimination against women. |
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