Saudi- Police free woman held captive for three years

(MENAFN- Arab News) Police have freed a woman held captive for three years by her relatives over a family dispute, an official from the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) said Monday. The 50-year-old woman had been imprisoned in a house in Taif, the NSHR official said. Police freed the woman at dawn on Sunday in the presence of representatives of the society. The woman's son had alerted authorities that his mother was being held against her will due to a "family dispute over properties", the daily reported. The woman, who lived in Riyadh, was "taken by force to Taif where she was held captive during these years," the paper said.