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Saudi presenter shows beaten face
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A TV presenter who says she was beaten by her husband has allowed newspapers to show pictures of her swollen face to highlight domestic abuse. Rania al-Baz said her husband, Mohammed al-Fallatta, beat her so hard earlier this week that he broke her nose and fractured her face in 13 places. She is recovering in hospital. Police are looking for Mr Fallatta, an unemployed lounge singer. Reuters news agency says he faces charges of attempted murder. Ms Bazâs mother told Saudi media that Mr Fallatta beat her daughter regularly. After beating her, Mr Fallatta took her to hospital and fled, her mother reportedly added. "I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in Saudi Arabia," Ms Baz said. Analysts say domestic violence is widespread in the country.
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"It is considered a husbandâs rights that his wife should obey him," Abeer Mishkhas, of the Saudi English-language newspaper Arab News, told BBC News Online. "This can involve coercion or violence, and we know that the majority of cases of this kind go unreported and unnoticed." However more and more Saudi women go to civil courts to request divorces on grounds of violence, Ms Mishkhas says.
Sorry, if this has been up here before, it just really gets my goat. Grrrrr...
Posted by: Howard UK 2004-04-16 |
