On Sunday, by court order, Rania Al-Baz was finally divorced from her abusive husband, Mohammed Al-Fallatah. After failing three times to appear in court, Al-Fallatah was brought in by an official of the area where he lives. "I'm glad it only took four sessions for him to divorce me; I know of other women who can't get divorced for years because their husbands fail to show up in court," Rania said. She was pleased with the ruling even though she had to forfeit SR35,000. She explained, "The judge ordered him to divorce me. He then asked for me to forfeit the SR35,000 which was part of our prenuptial agreement if I asked for a divorce. I agreed to do so and then he had the audacity to ask for custody of our children, claiming that I was an unfit mother. The judge refused to listen to him."
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Rania got more justice than this western(american?) woman
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/01/national/main664211.shtml
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Rania got more justice because her case was so high profile. Thats it. Its all about PR for the magic kingdom so they can say that we in the west are all wrong about them ie there is no womens rights problem there.
If she wasn't a famous battered woman, she would still be waiting for that divorce. If she was a normal women, then when and if she got the dicorce the husband would get the children without any debate. He could prevent her from ever seeing them again and she couldn't do a thing about it except open a case which wouldn't ever be resolved thanks to the good ol boys protecting the priveledges of their own sex first and foremost.
Armed men heroically stormed a home in an eastern Pakistan village Tuesday, killing a couple, their son and two relatives in an attack allegedly carried out to avenge family honor, police said. The eight attackers spared three others in the shooting in Vinnoi, a farming village about 30 kilometers (20 miles) east of Multan, said police official Jamil Ahmed. The victims were 20-year-old Munawar Mai, her husband and 1-year-old son, as well as her monther-in-law and a brother-in-law, Ahmed said. The attackers allegedly included four of Mai's brothers and four unidentified men, Ahmed said. Mai's brothers were apparently angered by her decision in 2002 to break a family arranged engagement to her cousin and marry the man she loved, he said. Three men have been arrested in connection with the killings in what Ahmed described as a "tragic case of killing in the name of honor." The suspects were not identified — but none were Mai's brothers, who were still at large and being searched for by police, Ahmed said.
In January-September of 2004, about 410 "honor killings" were reported in this country, according to the Pakistani women's rights group AGHS. On Tuesday, President Gen. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf signed legislation aimed at strengthening the law against honor killing, state-run Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported.
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