The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is looking into the case of a secondary school girl who alleges she was physically abused for years by her father and stepmother. Hussein Al-Shareef, the NSHR Supervisor General in Makkah, said the NSHR would work with police and the Social Protection Society in Tabuk to bring those responsible to justice. The girl, Shouq, who lives with her father in Tabuk, revealed her condition recently to her divorced mother who lives in Madina. “They have beaten and burnt her for years,” said Umm Shouq, claiming that her daughter was suffering from poor eyesight as a result of the physical abuse. Umm Shouq, who separated from Shouq's father over 15 years ago, said she made her appeal to the NSHR after a lawsuit she had brought against her ex-husband, in which she had sought the eye-witness testimonies of her daughter's neighbors, was postponed. She said her daughter had outlined her sufferings in a letter sent to the Social Protection Society in Madina. Fatima Al-Rashedi, Shouq's school counselor, said they had been informed of the situation.
