An appeals court yesterday upheld the decision of a judge in the northern city of Al-Jouf in October to divorce a couple in absentia at the request of the wife’s half brothers.
The 34-year-old woman, Fatima, mother of two children by her marriage to Mansour Al-Timani, 37, has been in a prison in Dammam since October with her youngest child, Suleiman, a year old. She has steadily refused to return to the custody of her family since she was arrested in Jeddah for living with the man she legally married with her father’s consent more than three years ago. The older child, Noha, 2, is in her father’s custody and occasionally visits her mother in prison.
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