wojo1111
07.10.05, 07:02
Jedyna , bodajze arabska feministka zyjaca !! w arabskim kraju
uciekla z islamskiego piekla dla kobiet z Arabi Saudyjskiej .
Pamietamy ja prezenterke TV saudyjskiej , wierna muzulmanke ,
pobita straszliwie o krok od smierci przez arabskiego meza .
Pamietamy jej apel i konferencje prasowa. Teraz zaproszona na
kobieca konferencje w Europie dostala zakaz wyjazdu !!!!
UCIEKLA bo obawiala sie o swoje zycie , uciekla przez granice
bo chciala opowiedziec jak cierpia kobiety w Islamie .
Wysluchajmy jej glosu wolajacego o ratunek.......
Oct. 6, 2005 23:50 | Updated Oct. 7, 2005 0:13
Famed Saudi feminist slips away to Paris
By ORLY HALPERN
A Saudi Arabian female journalist whose battered face publicized the problem
of domestic abuse left her country hiding in a truck last weekend across the
border to Bahrain, according to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Quds
al-Arabi.
Rania al-Baz, 29, the Saudi TV presenter who was comatose in a hospital for
days last year after being brutally beaten by her husband, was prevented by
Saudi authorities from flying to Paris, where she planned to participate in a
conference on women's rights and to promote her book, Defiguree, her
publicist, Margaux Ferro of Michel Lafon Publishing, told The Jerusalem Post.
"She had a problem," said Ferro in a phone conversation from Paris. "They
said, No, you cannot fly. They didn't explain to her why."
Baz arrived in Paris Monday morning after a roundabout trip overland from
Saudi Arabia to Bahrain and then to Dubai.
But Ferro denied that Baz had crossed into Bahrain illegally. "She found
another solution – a legal solution – to pass by car to Bahrain and go to
Dubai and then fly to Paris."
Ferro weighed her words carefully before she spoke. "We have to suppose that
they don't want Rania to deliver her message to the whole world that you can't
treat woman like that."
The French organization Mouvement Ni putes Ni soumises (Not Whores, Not
Victims), the NPNS, which held the Paris conference, was equally evasive about
the reasons for the travel ban. Last Saturday Baz, who is the organization's
representative in the Arab world, was supposed to give a lecture on the
situation of women in the Gulf States.
Baz, who was an announcer with Saudi Television's Channel 1, raised the issue
of domestic abuse in her country after she agreed from her hospital bed in
April 2004 to allow photos of her swollen black-and-blue face to be published.
Never before had the issue been publicly raised in the Saudi Kingdom, which
keeps its problems in private.
"I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of abused
women in Saudi Arabia," she told Arab News after surgery to repair one of 13
fractures to her face.
But some Saudis lashed out at her appearance, saying she presented her country
and Arabs in general in a bad light for showcasing the issue of domestic abuse.
Championing women's causes has made it difficult for her to find work in her
country, said her publicist.
"She has been saying to the French media, 'Why shouldn't I work in France or
in England?'" said Ferro.
Thomas Lippman, an expert on Saudi Arabia and a scholar at the US-based Middle
East Institute, said although discussion of domestic abuse has recently become
more acceptable, her book may have crossed the Saudi government's red lines.
"You never know when these discussions will be perceived by the authorities as
going too far," he said.
Baz is concerned about her family in Saudi Arabia, said Ferro. "She doesn't
speak to me about being worried about going back there," said Ferro. "Maybe
she doesn't want to say such things. Her family is there, her three children,
her mother, her grandmother."
Baz divorced her husband after she was released from the hospital. He was
sentenced to 300 lashes and six months in prison. Baz requested his release
from prison after he agreed to give her custody of their children.
Since arriving in France, Baz has given several interviews on French
television to raise awareness about domestic abuse and to promote her book
about women in Saudi Arabia, which was published in French on September 22.
Michel Lafon Publishing is now in negotiations for a English translation.
Meanwhile, Baz has no imminent plans to go back to Saudi Arabia. "She has no
date for returning," said Ferro. "But it's her choice."
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