Saudi Arabian women are being monitored by an electronic system at airports that notifies their male 'guardians' when they try to leave the country.
Women in the Muslim country, which has long been criticised for its limitations on women's rights, are required to have a male guardian responsible for them.
The new system now sends a text message to the men informing them that the woman is leaving or entering the country, even if the pair are together.
Equal rights campaigners have lambasted the system, saying it is another way of keeping women 'imprisoned' in the country.
Women in the strict Islamic country are not allowed to leave Saudi Arabia without the permission of their guardian, who can consent on what is known as a 'yellow document'.
Saudi Arabia, which ranked second worst in a Thomson Reuters global survey on women’s rights in mid 2012, is a notoriously repressive country.
Women are not allowed to leave the country without signed permission from their husbands.
required to have a male guardian.
Women are banned from driving.
just received the right to vote in municipal elections last year and must cover their bodies, traditionally with a burqa or niqab.
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