Malaysian woman sends SOS to family over abuse by Saudi Arabian husband

Often Saudis marry the young women in places like Indonesia while on vacation - sleep with them and then return home without them. In the Islamic world Saudis are seen as higher people - so likely few would question their intentions. Those girls who are 'lucky' enough to have the marriage honored and taken back to live in Arabia often find that the ulterior reason for the marriage was that they be made into some kind of slave or servant. This sounds like one of those cases. The problem is that once in Arabia - women are for all intent and purposes the property of the man - of which he has absolute right over.


MIRI: A woman married to a Saudi Arabian has sent an SOS to her family in Ulu Baram, claiming she is being abused and ill-treated by her husband there.

Dorcas Imang appealed to her father Imang Ngau to highlight her plight to Malaysian and Saudi authorities and alert the Malaysian High Commission in Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

Imang Ngau, in his late 60s and a farmer living in a longhouse in Ulu Baram, some 200km from here, has lodged a police report here over Dorcas’ situation.

According to sources, Dorcas alerted her elder sister, who is living in Sabah, via a hurriedly-made telephone call a few days ago saying she was suffering serious physical abuse at the hands of her husband.

She asked her sister to seek help from the authorities soon as she could not endure the abuse any more.

“In his report, the father said that his daughter claimed she was being locked up by her husband in their Saudi house and is being abused physically,” said a source.

The father told the police here that Dorcas, met the Saudi man when he visited Sarawak last year. They eventually got married and she moved with him to Saudi Arabia last year.

Miri OCPD Asst Comm Jamaluddin Ibrahim, when contacted, said he had not obtained a copy of the report.