Do you think Laura Bush will start a campaign to support the women of Saudi Arabia now? I don't thinks so==========================================================A BUSINESSWOMAN was detained and strip-searched by Saudi Arabia's religious police for sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop with an unrelated man, taboo in the country.Yesterday's incident came just days after a UN report blasted the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom for widespread discrimination against women and as a UN expert on women's rights began a visit to the country.It also came as a Saudi princess announced a scholarship to promote women in journalism, saying "women journalists are best placed to promote cultural communication between men and women in Saudi society".The English-language Arab News today quoted a 40-year-old financial consultant, named only as Yara, as saying she was arrested by members of the powerful Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.She said she was holding a business meeting with the man in a branch of Starbucks in Riyadh, in a section reserved for families.
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