Bahraini wife face husband's wrath

Manama : Police have arrested a man for beating his wife unconscious near a shopping mall in Muharraq Governorate.

The victim was punched twice in the face a few metres away from Dragon City mall in Diyar Al Muharraq, leaving her unconscious in her car, before she was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

The victim’s lawyer, Ebtissam Al Sabbagh, confirmed to DT News yesterday that the incident took place on Thursday while the victim was driving out from the mall.

“She filed a complaint at Samaheej Police Station and the husband was shortly arrested,” Al Sabbagh said.

The attorney also informed that the couple have some issues and are involved in a legal dispute before the court.

However, Al Sabbagh couldn’t reveal further information on the nature of the legal case between the couple, but added that “they have one baby together that is only few months old”.

“She told the cops that she noticed her husband was following her while she was driving away out of the mall. She stopped on the side of the road and he approached her. A heated argument erupted between the two, as the man accused her of lying in the court. The discussion ended with the man attacking his wife,” the lawyer said, adding that the husband has been interrogated by the Public Prosecution yesterday.  

According to her version at the police station, the unconscious victim was woken up by passers-by 10 minutes after the incident took place.

She was taken to King Hamad University Hospital by ambulance. A non-Bahraini eyewitness supported the woman’s claims at the police station.

This is the third case of husbands beating their wives that surfaced in Bahrain within the past two months, raising more concerns over the increasing domestic violence issue and the victims who haven’t spoken up about their agony yet.

DT News reported recently that a Bahraini man was sentenced by the criminal court to one year of imprisonment for brutally attacking his Syrian ex-wife.

The 32-year-old woman was diagnosed with concussion, hemorrhage and severe bruises and inflammations on the face and other parts of her body.

She was hospitalised for at least two weeks by the middle of September. Labour and Social Development Ministry has provided the woman and her five children a temporary shelter at Dar Al Aman Home for Domestic Violence Victims.

Few weeks later, particularly on October 13, another man was arrested by Muharraq Police Station for assaulting his ex-wife and damaging her car. In a similar scenario to Thursday’s incident, the man stopped his ex-wife in the middle of the road, physically assaulted and rammed into her car.

The Public Prosecution initiated its investigations into the case and accused the man of assault and damaging private property.