Beaten Saudi TV presenter flees

Ed Vulliamy
Friday October 7, 2005
The Guardian

Rania al-Baz, a Saudi Arabian television presenter who shocked her country by publishing photographs of herself after being beaten by her husband, has left for France, apparently never to return.

"I won't go back," Ms Baz said in Paris yesterday, clearly exhausted. "At the moment I don't have anywhere to live. I will try to find work here or in London." Asked the reason for her departure, she would only say: "I was not safe any more in Saudi Arabia. Now, I must rest, remain quiet for a few days, and think about my children, who are still back in Jeddah."