Al-Nafjan has been calling on Saudi women to upload videos of themselves driving in different parts of the kingdom.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Blogger Eman al-Nafjan tweets about filming a female driver, talks about their detention
- After she and the driver were pulled over, "police were smiling and easygoing," she said
- She says many in Saudi Arabia, including officials, think it's time to allow women to drive
- No Saudi traffic laws ban women drivers, but some say that religious edicts do
As a campaign for Saudi women to defy the driving ban in their country heats up, one of the country's leading female bloggers was detained in Riyadh on Thursday after a woman she was with did just that.
Eman al-Nafjan, who tweets as Saudiwoman and has been one of the leading voices urging Saudi women to get behind the wheel on October 26, was in a car that was stopped by police in Riyadh, the capital, as she filmed another woman driving.
Al-Nafjan, who has been calling on Saudi women to upload videos of themselves driving in different parts of the kingdom, spoke exclusively with CNN on Friday about what happened.
"Yesterday, I kept getting called by women I know who wanted me to film them driving," she said, explaining how she spent most of the day filming and uploading information about those excursions online.
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