{"id":3207,"date":"2023-11-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/finnish-citizen-first-european-woman-to-get-driving-licence-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T11:50:00","slug":"finnish-citizen-first-european-woman-to-get-driving-licence-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/finnish-citizen-first-european-woman-to-get-driving-licence-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish citizen &#8216;first European woman to get driving licence&#8217; in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        A Finnish national has become the first European woman to obtain the Saudi driving licence.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Finnish citizen has become the first European woman to obtain a Saudi driving licence.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry in Riyadh issued a Saudi licence to Laura Al-Alho in replacement of her Finnish one.<\/p>\n<p>She proudly posted photos of the historic event on her Twitter account and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueabaya.com\/2018\/06\/how-expats-apply-saudi-driving-license.html\">Blue Abaya \u2013 Discovering Saudi Arabia Through Nordic Eyes<\/a>\u201d travel blog she runs on the internet (also Saudi&#8217;s first travel blog).<\/p>\n<p>The positive impact on Saudi women becoming drivers has been widely acknowledged, and this is one of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s reform drives to steer Saudi towards a progressive future.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a royal decree announced the end of a decades-long ban on women driving \u2014 the only one of its kind in the world at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Driving licences were issued to 10 Saudi women last week, just weeks before Saudi Arabia&#8217;s ban on female drivers is to be lifted on June&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/06\/13\/finnish-citizen-first-european-woman-to-get-driving-licence-in-saudi\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Finnish national has become the first European woman to obtain the Saudi driving licence. ADVERTISEMENT A Finnish citizen has become the first European woman to obtain a Saudi driving licence. The interior ministry in Riyadh issued a Saudi licence to Laura Al-Alho in replacement of her Finnish one. She proudly posted photos of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}