In an unprecedented step, a Saudi Arabian law will be applied starting next week forcing a husband to pay his wife a maximum of 50,000 Saudi Riyals (SR) in damages if he beats her and a minimum of SR5,000. This rule wouldn’t apply if he causes permanent damage to her and or results in her death because of the beatings and would face the stiff arm of the law.
Saudi Arabian Head of Protection in the Ministry of Social Affairs Dr. Mohammad Al-Harbi said the new legal regulations were put in place by advocates with the goal of reaching the highest degree of transparency and we have not intervened in the drafting of the law but was left to lawyers and the Human Rights Association.
“We have not limited the penalty to material compensation only but there is also a prison sentence that is not less than one month and not more than one year and in the event of recurrent beatings the penalty doubles,” he added. The new regulations falls under the Law of Protection Against Abuse.
“We held workshops over a three-month period in the different areas of Saudi Arabia and all those concerned with human rights participated in them and these were organized by an independent consultative office so nobody could point the finger at the ministry that it chooses everything,” Dr Harbi concluded.
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