Domestic Violence Saudi Arabian style!

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A popular Saudi television host publicly showed her bruised and bloodied face and has shocked her compatriots into openly talking about one of the kingdom's long-hidden problems: violence against women.

Rania al-Baz has been hailed as a hero for letting newspaper photographers snap pictures of her face and for frankly discussing her case after she said a beating by her husband earlier this month left her unconscious.

Her story has been widely reported in the Saudi media. A Saudi princess stepped forward to pay al-Baz's medical bills. Representatives of the new Saudi National Human Rights Association visited her in the hospital.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/19/saudi.batteredhost.ap/index.html

[Veggie Meathead]

1. Another widespread problem underreported here is the

severe mistreatment of poor women from India, Sri Lanka, Phillippines,
Indonesia and Thailand who work as servants in Saudi households. In these homes the women are nothing but indentured slaves who can be beaten, raped and completely isolated without any recourse to help
from even their own embassies.Sometimes these servant women are brought by the Saudis to this country where the mistreatment continues.It is not just the Saudis who are involved in this but Kuwaitis, Arab Emirates and other wealthy Arab countries.When we at DU get carried away by what we perceive to be the mistreatment of Arabs, it would be worthwhile to keep the plight of the poor indentured women from Asian countries in Arab countries.What is remarkable is that there is no outcry against these practices among Arabs.