RIYADH — Activists in Saudi Arabia are revving up a right-to-drive campaign using social media in the world’s only country that bans women from getting behind the wheel, a campaigner said on Thursday.

An online petition asking the Saudi government to “lift the ban on women driving” has attracted more than 2,400 signatures ahead of the campaign’s culmination on Oct. 26.

Activists are also encouraging women to post pictures of themselves driving, using a Twitter hashtag, as well as on Instagram and YouTube.

“We are trying to do something to refresh this demand” that women be allowed to drive, activist Nasima al-Sada said.

“It doesn’t stop,” she said of the national campaign.

“We are asking the ladies to sit behind the wheel and take action” on Oct. 26 “or any day,” Sada said from the kingdom’s Eastern Province.

Last year, activists also focused their demands on Oct. 26 – which they call a “symbolic” date as part of efforts to press for women’s right to drive.

At least 16 Saudi women were fined for taking the wheel on that day last year.

Forced to cover themselves from head to toe, Saudi women still need permission from a male guardian to work and marry.