A Sydney-based Saudi rights activist who led a campaign for women to drive in the conservative kingdom today vowed to return and become one of the first to legally get behind the wheel. Manal al-Sharif was imprisoned for nine days after posting a video of herself on YouTube and Facebook driving her car around the eastern city of Khobar in 2011 at the height of the "Women2Drive" protest movement. <br/><br/>Manal al-Sharif, who came to Australia after she was released from jail, told The Australian newspaper that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud's historic decree this week allowing women to drive from next June brought her to tears.<br/> <br/>According to local media, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Tuesday issued a royal decree granting driving licenses for women in the kingdom. The order lifted a decades-old ban on Saudi women from driving, a right that has been reserved only to male citizens and residents so far.