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Arabia
Unemployed Lounge Singer Surrenders
2004-04-21
Muhammad Bakar Yunus Al-Fallatta, who almost beat his wife Rania Al-Baz to death two weeks ago, has surrendered to police, according to the prominent TV presenter. Rania told Arab News that her husband who is facing charges of attempted murder, surrendered to police on Monday night. Al-Fallatta, who was carrying a prayer rug, told police he had acted in a jealous rage, she said. This could mean the charges would be reduced from attempted murder to wife battery, which carries a lighter sentence.
"What's the penalty for wife battery?"
"12 hours community service."
He will remain in custody until he is seen by a judge in four weeks’ time. The judge will decide in one sitting what happens to Al-Fallatta and also whether to grant Rania a divorce and, if he does, who gets custody of the children. “They only questioned him for 15 minutes but did not take my statement. Nobody called me yet,” Rania said. On April 4, Al-Fallatta attacked his wife by pinning her to the floor and repeatedly smashing her face into the marble tiles and the walls while choking her. According to Rania, he stopped only to give her time to recite the shahada, “because,” he said, “I am going to kill you.”
Posted by:Fred

#8  Zenster, if the Princess' husband ordered the guards, they would have been there. But a woman's orders don't need to be followed.
Besides, I'm sure the judge will take into consideration that he gave her time to say shahada during the beating. He'll probably take off 10 hours of community service for that.
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2004-04-21 7:18:20 PM  

#7  She said there were no security guards outside her house despite the fact that Princess Sara Al-Angari, the wife of Makkah Governor Prince Abdul Majeed, had ordered 24-hour security for her.

Institutionalized violence against women is one of the principal reasons that fundamentalist Islam must be marginalized (preferrably out of existence) by all free societies.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-21 5:37:31 PM  

#6  You are wrong.

The Saudi penaly for wife battering is 300 lashes to the wife.
Posted by: JFM   2004-04-21 4:38:46 PM  

#5  That's minimum wage.... got a chunk o tuna stuck to my 19th incisor.
Posted by: Shamu   2004-04-21 1:55:59 PM  

#4  LOL Hose, pretty good for minimm wage labor.
Posted by: Shamu   2004-04-21 1:55:10 PM  

#3  CF, no but I saw Slingblade.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-21 12:09:36 PM  

#2  Say... has anybody seen 'Gentle'?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-04-21 10:37:03 AM  

#1  Rania yesterday said she was afraid for her and her children’s lives. She said there are hospital records that show that he had smashed her in the forehead last year, requiring her to be stitched. Al-Fallatta has also hit his five-year old son in the past. “He hit him so hard that he almost ruptured his ear drum. His face was swollen for a few days,” she told Arab News.

He has also abducted the children and prevented her from seeing them for two months, she said. When she complained to police they told her since the children were with their father there was nothing they could do.

and yet she may not get custody...Islam, the religion of subjugation
Posted by: Frank G   2004-04-21 10:34:13 AM  

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