Saudi court orders husband to divorce beaten wife

Although divorce is legal under Islam, religious law favours men, reports The Telegraph. ‘Except in extreme cases, judges prefer to hear the husband say that he divorces the wife rather than for judges to grant the divorce,’ said Rania al-Baz. She suffered 13 facial fractures when her husband, Muhammad al-Fallatta, who was jailed, hit her head repeatedly against a marble floor before dumping her at a hospital. ‘The judge ordered him to divorce me,’ Baz told an Arab News daily. However, the judge also said she had to forfeit her dowry of roughly £5 000. Full report in The Telegraph