Shifting gear: Saudi women defy driving ban - Features - Al Jazeera English

Shifting gear: Saudi women defy driving ban - Features - Al Jazeera English

 Doha, Qatar - While hackers were able to attack the October 26 campaign's website and clerics denounced the cause of women driving in Saudi Arabia, many women were able to get behind the wheel on Saturday - albeit quietly.

A day earlier, hackers were able to deface the campaign's website with a message that said: "This site has been hacked because I am against women driving in this holy country."

Activists say that messages trying to put the brakes on their cause were not only coming from anonymous online sources, but from government authorities.

Saudi writer and activist Hala al-Dosari told Al Jazeera that the website was censored inside the kingdom by the Saudi internet watchdog, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST). "Unless you have a proxy to access censored websites, many people could not access Oct26driving.org but they still got almost 16,000 signatures," she said.