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Saudi Women Get Jail Terms for Trying to Help Canadian
[An Nahar] A Saudi court handed two Saudi women 10-month jail sentences on Saturday for seeking to help a Canadian woman who wanted to leave her Saudi husband with their children, human rights...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists said. The court also banned Fawzia al-Ayuni and Wajiha al-Huaider from leaving the kingdom for two years, rights activist Aql al-Bahli said. They have a month to appeal against the judgment. The two women were convicted of the Islamic sharia law offence of takhbib, or incitement of a wife to defy the authority of her husband, Bahli said. They had been briefly jugged Please don't kill me! by police a year and a half ago in the company of the Canadian woman who at the time wanted to flee the kingdom with her children after a row with her husband, he added. Regional rights group the Gulf Forum for Civil Societies expressed "deep concern" over the jail sentences handed down against two women, who had "defended a humanitarian right". It urged the Canadian government to intervene with the Saudi authorities on the women's behalf. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-16 |
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