Saudi women are uploading videos of themselves defying the ban in solidarity with a woman who was arrested for driving her car

Manal al-Sharif was arrested by the kingdom's religious police on Saturday after she challenged Saudi ban on female driving by posting a video on Facebook and YouTube showing she’s driving a car in the eastern city of al-Khobar.

Saudi Arabian authorities have extended her custody for defying the ban by ten days.

Although the police released her after a few hours, she was later re-arrested from her home by criminal investigation police, and detained at the Women's Prison in Dammam, her lawyer Adnan al-Saleh said.

She was expected to be released on Friday but her detention has been extended by 10 more days, AFP reported on Thursday.

In solidarity with her arrest, Saudi women are uploading videos of themselves defying the ban.

The 32-year-old, who launched the "Women2Drive" campaign, had urged other women with foreign driver's licenses to take to the roads on June 17 in peaceful protest. Her posted video of herself driving has garnered 500,000 views.