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Two 26-year-old Saudi women are on trial for allegedly assaulting and insulting on-duty policewomen while in custody on suspicion of using drugs, the High Criminal Court heard.
The first defendant stands accused of kicking and scratching a female officer while attempting to stop her from handcuffing her while waiting to get a drug test in the Interior Ministry fort.
According to the Bahraini policewoman, the defendant threatened her with revenge, stating: “I’ll record your names, and you’ll see what I’ll do when I go back to Saudi Arabia.”
She reportedly told the 35-year-old policewoman ‘I buy people like you with my money’ and hurled further demeaning words and insults at her.
The woman has been charged with using violence to obstruct a member of the security forces from carrying out their duty and resisting arrest by pushing and injuring her.
“The two defendants were arrested after being suspected of possessing narcotics for recreational purposes,” the allegedly injured policewoman earlier testified.
“As I was accompanying them with my partner to take a drug test in the Police Fort hospital, the first defendant insulted me and refused to take the test, then went into a nearby room.
“I went in to try to handcuff her, but she resisted, beating and kicking me. The second defendant tried to intervene to help her friend by assaulting me.
“The second defendant was stopped by my police partner, but she pulled my partner’s hijab and coat while trying to stop her.” In Public Prosecution hearings, the first defendant denied assaulting the policewoman, stating that she simply did not want to be handcuffed so she could reach out to her family.
The woman claimed to have recently underwent surgery on her abdomen and was worried that the officer who sat on her stomach would open the stitches. She told prosecutors that she had only moved her hands so she could call her relatives to take legal action against the policewoman, although these claims were not backed up in any other witness testimony.
In a recent hearing, the Public Prosecution asked judges to punish the women to the maximum extent of the law. “The victims are not any normal individuals – they are the protectors of our nation, and its watchful eye that never sleeps for the sake of the people,” read the prosecution’s statement.
In a letter addressed to the court, the first defendant’s father urged judges to let his daughter out on bail, so she would not lose her job at the air conditioning subsidiary company of a large Saudi conglomerate.
“Please let my daughter go back to her job, I will pay any bail necessary, as she has been in prison for a month-and-a-half so far,” the Saudi dad stated.
The hearing was adjourned to January 12 for defence arguments.
zainab@gdnmedia.bh
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