The Children of Mansour & Fatima

It took four years for logic and justice to prevail in the case of Fatima and Mansour but no less it prevailed. For those who don’t know the case here is a brief summer:

Fatima and Mansour got married with the approval of Fatima’s father and were happy together with 2 kids. After the death of Fatima’s father her half brother went to court asking that the marriage of his sister be abolished under the claims that Mansour lied about his heritage and that he is not worthy of his sister. Keeping in mind that the couple were happy and refuse to separate the judge granted the divorce. Ever since Fatima has been in jail ever since with her youngest child refusing to leave jail except with her husband who has been raising their eldest child alone. An appeals court held the divorce valid but the supreme court just voided the divorce and reunited the couple. This officially ends the case.

This is only one case of many in Saudi Arabia of such stupidty, hopfully this is the begining of a trend to stop families from forcefully and lawfully divorce a happy couple.

A link to a news item in a local English newspaper: http://bit.ly/dCQDP2

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