Saudi Arabia has strict laws requiring women to seek male permission for various decisions and actions.

Included in this BBC report http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44178078 on the Saudi Arabian regime's latest anti freedom act is this line:

'Saudi Arabia has strict laws requiring women to seek male permission for various decisions and actions.'

Oddly the usual suspects who scream about Israel's supposed human rights abuses, mostly imaginary, are not so worried by the real abuses of the Saudi regime. One law for the only Jewish majority country and another one for the leading Sunni Muslim country?