JEDDAH, 8 May 2006 — The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) received 1,063 domestic violence cases in the past one and a half years. Among them were 400 cases related to children’s custody after the parents’ divorce and 20 cases involving incest.
Almost all these cases are directly posted to NSHR by women, according to Dr. Suhaila Zain Al-Abideen, NSHR research director.
“Male members of the family are involved in most of domestic violence cases,” said Zain Al-Abideen.
“Cases of domestic violence against men are rare and even nonexistent,” she added.
The society received 5,000 cases since it started in the Kingdom in 2003. Thirty percent of these cases were domestic violence cases, including sexual financial, physical and psychological abuse.
