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Saudi activists said more than 60 women claimed to have answered their call yesterday to get behind the wheel in a rare show of defiance against a ban on female driving in the ultraconservative kingdom.自存倉Saudi professor and campaigner Aziza Youssef said the group has received 13 videos and another 50 phone messages from women showing or claiming they had driven. She said they have no way to verify the messages.If the numbers are accurate, this year's campaign is the most successful effort yet by Saudi women demanding the right to drive. Youssef said they have not received any reports of arrests or women being ticketed by police.A security official, who requested anonymity, said authorities did not arrest or fine any female drivers yesterday.However, there have been a few roadblocks along the way.Youssef said she and four other prominent women activists received phone calls this week from a top official with close links to Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, warning them not to drive yesterday, the day the campaign was set for women's driving.She also said that "two suspicious cars" have been following her everywhere all day. "I don't know from which party they are. They are not in a government car," she said.Though no specific Saudi law bans women from driving, women are not issued licenses in the kingdom. They m迷你倉stly rely on drivers or male relatives to move around.Powerful clerics who hold far-reaching influence over the monarchy enforce the driving ban, warning that breaking it will spread "licentiousness." A prominent cleric caused a stir when he said last month that medical studies show that driving a car harms a woman's ovaries.The kingdom's first major driving protest came in 1990 when some 50 women drove their cars. They were jailed for a day, had their passports confiscated and lost their jobs. In June 2011, about 40 women got behind the wheel in several cities in a protest sparked when a woman was arrested after posting a video of herself driving.The atmosphere appeared more tolerant this year and state newspapers for the first time have run near daily commentary on the issue.May al-Sawyan, a 32-year-old mother of two, said that she drove from her home in Riyadh to the grocery store and back.Like other female drivers defying the ban in Saudi Arabia, al-Sawyan said she has obtained a driver's license from abroad. "I am very happy and proud that there was no reaction against me," she said.In the run-up to the driving campaign, Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki warned that anyone disturbing public order would be dealt with forcefully. That same language was used in charges levied against a female driver in 2011.mini storage