Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi, active in the women to drive movement, announced that they had filed lawsuits against Saudi authorities in the Grievances Board, a non-Sharia court,[1] because of the rejection of their driving licence applications.[2] As of the end of June 2012, 100 Saudi women had started driving regularly since the June 2011 campaign launch.[3] Women university students protested in King Khalid University in Abha in March[4] and were attacked by security forces, leading to one death.[5][6] Other university protests followed in Taibah University in Medina[7] and Tabuk University in March and April.[8][9]