Qadhlah Hauban shot and killed her husband during a dispute four years ago.
Considering the housewife’s motivation for the crime and the fact that she was mother of eight, the trial judge spared her life and ordered her to pay blood money instead.
This money was donated by the Women’s Charity Society of the South and Asir branch of the Women Prisoners and Ex-Convicts Committee recently.
“My children were my only concern over these years, and I decided that I would be a good mother for them and make up for the lost years,” Hauban, whose youngest son Naif was living with her in prison, told Arab News.
Secretary-General of Women’s Charity Society Muna Al-Bareek said her organization donated SR50,000 to Hauban to pay the blood money.
Executive Director of the Women Prisoners and Ex-Convicts Committee Yusuf Al-Zamil said the committee donated SR60,000 to raise fund for the blood money. He said the committee spent more than SR350,000 to support prisoners’ families in the province.
Al-Bareek said her charity society organized a number of rehabilitation programs for women prisoners, apart from training prisoners in personal hygiene and cultural matters.
