Saudi journalist Rania al-Baz fled to France
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 10/5/2005

The Saudi activists and press woman, Rania al-Baz, succeeded in leaving Saudi Arabia and to arrive in Paris despite efforts to prevent her from traveling under the pretext that her travel paper documents are incomplete.

The Publication House "Michael Lavon" in France which published her book "Distorted" in France said that she left her country in an illgal way, and was hidden in a goods truck, and traveled to Bahrain and then to Dubai before she could take the plane to Paris.

The publisher added that al-Baz was banned on Tuesday from traveling to France from Jeddah airport under the pretext that her travel papers are not legal before she was notified she is banned from leaving the kingdom for an indefinite time. He stressed that al-Baz is a journalist who does not work against her country, nor Islam, rather for the rights of woman.

The publisher accused the Saudi authorities of trying to silence the journalist who left her children in the kingdom and preferred to defend the rights of the Saudi women.

He indicated to the book "Distorted" in which the Saudi journalist describes how her husband had beaten her violently for her role for attain freedom for woman and her militant role in Saudi Arabia.

It was presumed that Rania al-Baz would have had taken part by the end of last week in a conference in Paris quarters for "No prostitution, no surrender" which demands equality between man and woman among the expatriates circles in France.

Al-Baz who presented several women programs on channel 1 of the Saudi TV had marks, especially on her face, after her husband had beaten her. Her husband who accused her of misconduct was sentenced to imprisonment.

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