The trigger was certainly the incomprehensible sentence passed against a women, known as 'the Qatif woman', who was sentenced to 200 lashes for having been found in a car talking to a man who was not part of her family.
El detonante ha sido, ciertamente, la incomprensible sentencia dictada contra una mujer, conocida como "la mujer de Qatif", a la que se condenó a recibir doscientos latigazos por haber sido encontrada en un coche hablando con un hombre ajeno a su familia.