A Moroccan woman has accused her ex-husband of torture and members of the Saudi Arabia security forces of attempted rape. Separated from her only son, she is now forbidden to stay in the Kingdom.

The victim filed a complaint with the Casablanca Public Prosecutor’s Office for torture, attempted rape, forgery and use of forgery against her former spouse, a Sudanese national, and members of the Saudi security forces.

According to the daily Assabah, the complainant was forced to leave Saudi Arabia, leaving behind her child, after separating from her husband .

The victim says she may not be able to see her child, who was registered in the Saudi civil registry as the son of her ex-husband’s first wife.

In fact, the story of this woman is little different from that of many other Moroccan victims of abuse in Saudi Arabia.

After arriving in Saudi Arabia post marriage, she discovered that her husband is already married and has children. Her marriage started to fall out after getting pregnant. Her husband decided to separate the two wives, shifting his Moroccan wife to a separate apartment, but with one of his cousins. The victim quickly sniffed the plot and decided to return to the marital home for fear of being charged and tried for adultery.

Subsequently, according to her version of events, reported by Assabah, she refused to abort, despite being repeatedly assaulted by the first wife of her husband, to the point of being hospitalized, after receiving violent blows in the belly.

She owed her safety only to Egyptian neighbors who intervened and insisted on moving her to the hospital. After getting discharged, she decided to file a complaint. Her former husband having been informed of this, changed his behavior, becoming more tender. But it was only a trap.

She later learned that after bribing police, her husband avoided having the case brought before the judge. In the meantime, she delivered the baby, but for her, days in Saudi Arabia were numbered.

Her extradition was decided, and she was put in a special center that looked like a prison where a Saudi security officer tried to abuse her when he learned that she is Moroccan. Prohibited from Saudi territory for a period of five years, she returned to Casablanca where she waited patiently for the this period to pass. She did go back to Jeddah but was surprised to discover that her ex-husband, by corrupting Saudi officials, officially registered his son as his first wife’s.

According to Assabah, neither her recourse to a Saudi women’s rights association nor her attempt to seize justice could return her child. Her ex-husband arrived each time to stifle the case. In the end, she was again subjected to extradition and inadmissibility proceedings.

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