MADINA: A woman who was abducted and raped during Ramadan last year has been discharged from hospital after attempting to commit suicide earlier this week. The woman was admitted to a Madina hospital by her husband on Sunday and spent two days in intensive care after she had taken nine menstruation painkilling capsules, reportedly in response to the failure by police to locate one of her aggressors. The woman's husband said that she was abducted when she hailed a taxi in front of their home in the Al-Anbariya District to take her to the Al-Awali District to visit her family, but the driver instead took her to an istiraha rest house where he and an acquaintance raped her. “The police managed to identify and arrest one of them and he was passed on to the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution and then was sentenced in court to three years' prison and 1,500 lashes of the whip,” the victim's husband said. “But they still haven't managed to catch the other man, which really distressed my wife and led her to try to commit suicide.” The husband objected to the sentence given to the convicted man and instead demanded the death penalty. The court case revealed, the husband said, that the man had been arrested on previous occasions for crimes of a similar nature. Police told Okaz/Saudi Gazette that “considerable efforts” were being exerted to apprehend the second suspect in the case.
