In Saudi Arabia internal movement required official and spousal permission

Evidence

When you arrive in Saudi Arabia you cease to travel, in the ordinary sense. To move between cities you need letters from a higher authority, a sort of internal passport, and these are not granted without good reason; women, also, need written permission from their husbands if they want to make a journey. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 69

Categorization

• XREF: Works as a concrete research detail for anyone writing about restriction of movement as social control.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 69