NAJWA (not her real name), 35, gazes through the narrow window pane of a coffee shop, when asked about the days she lived at the mercy of her former husband’s bare knuckles.
More than five years ago, during the Covid-19 lockdown, the mother of two boys was constantly on the receiving end of his rage in their small flat in Petaling, Selangor.
Not a week went by without her sustaining a bruise or two, sometimes spread across her lips or temples.
“I thought the pressure of being jobless because of the lockdown drove him to be violent.
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