Woman summoned and booked for flouting traffic regulations after she was filmed driving out of Riyadh hotel 
 
 Police in Saudi Arabia have penalised a woman filmed driving a car, according to a spokesman, who warned against violations of a ban on female motorists to be lifted in June. 
 
 
 
 Authorities summoned the woman for flouting traffic regulations after she appeared in a video driving out of a hotel in Riyadh. 
 
 “We call on all Saudi citizens to respect the law and wait until the ban on women driving formally ends,” the police spokesman said. 
 
 He did not specify the nature of the penalty, but added that the woman filmed leaving the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the capital had not been arrested. He said the owner of the car was also booked for violating traffic rules. 
 
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 Last month Saudi Arabia announced it would allow women to obtain driving licences under a royal decree to take effect next summer. 
 
 The Gulf kingdom was the only country in the world to prohibit women from taking the wheel, a ban viewed by many as a symbol of repression. 
 
 Many Saudi women fear they are easy prey for conservatives in a state where male guardians – typically their fathers, husbands or brothers – have authority to make decisions on their behalf. 

 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in the capital, Riyadh, has been briefly detained for violating the country's ban on women driving, which is set to be lifted in June. 
 
 The state-linked Sabq news website reported on Monday that the woman in the video, who was unnamed, was identified and summoned by security authorities. Her male guardian — who is typically a woman's father or husband — was then asked to sign a pledge that she wouldn't violate traffic regulations again. 
 
 Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving. King Salman announced last month that women will be granted driving licenses and be allowed to drive next summer. The decision came after decades of struggle by women's rights activists.
– A Saudi woman who appeared in a video driving a car in Riyadh was briefly detained for violating the country's ban on women driving, which is set to be lifted in June, per the AP. The state-linked Sabq news website reported on Monday that the woman in the video, who was unnamed, was identified and summoned by security authorities. AFP notes she was spotted driving out of a hotel in the capital. "We call on all Saudi citizens to respect the law and wait until the ban on women driving formally ends," a police spokesman says. The spokesman adds that the woman wasn't arrested, and that the car's owner was also booked for breaking traffic rules. Her male guardian—typically a woman's father or husband—was then asked to sign a pledge that she wouldn't violate traffic regulations again. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to ban women from driving. King Salman announced last month that women will be granted driving licenses and be allowed to drive next summer. The decision came after decades of struggle by women's rights activists.