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28 March 2024

SR50,000 fine for Saudis who beat wives

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If you live in Saudi Arabia, try not to fall out with your wife as this will cost you SR50,000 (Dh50,000) under a new law penalising husbands beating their wives.

The law was approved by the Gulf Kingdom last week and is set to be enforced next week but it stopped short from tackling widespread parental violence against children.

Under the law, men who beat their wives will be fined SR50,000 and face prison terms of between one month and a year. But it was not clear how the penalty would be imposed and whether it covers verbal insults.

Saudi media sources close to courts said they believe husbands assaulting their wives would be punished on the basis of a medical report showing wives have been beaten.

The law, on the cards for more than two years, was approved by judicial authorities following a surge in cases involving husbands beating up their wives.

Many men involved in such offences had got away with it in the absence of such laws.

“Now we know the penalty against a husband smacking his wife, but what is the penalty against a wife smacking her husband,” joked Sheikh Ayed Al Qarni, a well-known Saudi Islamic scholar.

Another scholar, Sheikh Adel Al Kalbani, said on his Twitter page:”My advice to you (husband) is to get married again instead of smacking your wife and paying that sum.”