பாத்திமா அல் திமானி என்ற பெண்மணி கீழ் ஜாதியான மன்சூர் அல் திமானியை திருமணம் செய்ததை தவறு என்று சொல்லி சவுதி அரேபிய ஷாரியா கோர்ட் விவாகரத்து செய்துவிட்டது தெரிந்ததே.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Two years ago, a knock on Fatima and Mansour al-Timani's door shattered the life they had built together.
It was the police, delivering news that a judge had annulled their marriage in absentia after some of Fatima's relatives sought the divorce on grounds she had married beneath her.
That was just
the beginning of an ordeal for a couple who _ under Saudi Arabia's strict segregation rules _ can no longer live together. They sued to reverse the ruling, publicized their story and sought help from a Saudi human rights group.
But the two remain apart and Fatima is considering suicide, she said, if her recent appeal to King Abdullah doesn't reunite her with the man she still considers her husband.
«Only the king can resolve my case,» Fatima told The Associated Press by telephone in a rare interview. «I want to return to my husband, but if that is not possible, I need to know so I can put an end to my life.
Fatima's case underscores shortcomings in the kingdom's Islamic legal system _ in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
Those rules' most frequent _ and recently, most high-profile _ victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.
Recently, the king did intervene and pardon another high-profile defendant _ a rape victim who was sentenced to lashes and jail time for being in a car with a man who was not her relative.
The two cases have brought Saudi human rights once again into the international spotlight _ revealing not only the weakness of the kingdom's justice system, but the scant rights Saudi women have here.
«When I heard that the (rape victim) was pardoned, I couldn't believe it. My case is so much simpler than hers, since my divorce is invalid,» Fatima said.
Fatima said her husband, a hospital administrator, followed Saudi tradition in asking her father for permission to marry her in 2003.
«My brother reported good things about him, so my dad accepted his proposal,» said Fatima, a computer specialist who was 29 when she married.
She said her father knew that Mansour came from a less prominent tribe than hers, but that he didn't mind because he «cared about the man himself.
A few months after the wedding, several of Fatima's relatives persuaded her father to give them power of attorney to file a lawsuit demanding an annulment, she said.
Then her father died, and Fatima said she'd hoped the case would be dropped.
But on Feb. 25, 2006, police knocked on the couple's door to serve Mansour with divorce papers _ which said his marriage had been annulled nine months earlier.
«We were shattered. How did this happen? Why?» Fatima asked.
Fatima took the couple's 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son to live with her mother, who had persuaded her to let Mansour deal with the legal issues on his own.
But after three months without her husband, Fatima and the children sneaked out of her mother's house and flew with Mansour to the western seaside city of Jiddah, where they sought to live in anonymity.
Saudi police soon discovered them and imprisoned the family for living together illegally.
«The police told me I either return to my (mother's) family or go to jail,» Fatima said. «I chose jail.
«My children and I were thrown in a cell with women sentenced for pushing drugs, practicing witchcraft and behaving immorally,» Fatima said. Authorities allowed her to send her daughter back to live with her father, but the infant stayed with Fatima in jail.
«He learned to speak in jail, he learned to walk in jail and his teeth came out in jail,» she said.
Meanwhile, Mansour went to court to appeal the divorce ruling, but a Riyadh appeals court upheld the decision in 2007.
Last September, the head of a prominent Saudi human rights group reportedly asked the kingdom's highest court to review the case.
Bandar al-Hajjar, head of the National Society of Human Rights, submitted two Islamic studies concluding that the divorce was invalid, according to the Arab News, a Saudi English-language daily.
The studies, conducted by Islamic researcher Adnan Al-Zahrani and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Mecca, said that if a woman's legal guardian represented her at the original wedding, then other relatives have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility.
Both studies concluded that Fatima married Mansour with her father's permission, and that only the wife can decide whether she wants her marriage annulled, the paper reported.
Despite their legal fight, Fatima and Mansour remain apart.
After nine months in jail, Fatima moved to an orphanage where she and her son share an apartment with several other women.
Fatima said she is holding out hope the king might pardon her, and recognize her as «married to Mansour, before God.
«I love him more than ever. He's the only one who has stood by me,» she said.
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Monday, December 31, 2007
தாழ்ந்த அரபுஜாதி கணவரை மணந்ததற்காக விவாகரத்து கொடுக்கப்பட்ட பெண்
அரபியர்களின் ஜாதிவெறி காரணமாக கட்டாயமாக பிரிக்கப்பட்ட தம்பதியினர் சார்பாக பலரும் முறையீடு செய்திருக்கின்றனர்.
ஆனால் மன்னர் மனம் இன்னும் இரங்கவில்லை
Fatima and Mansour Still Have Hope, Says NSHR
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 10 December 2007 — Fatima, the forcefully divorced wife and perhaps the most spoken about Saudi woman in the past two years, knows nothing of the International Human Rights Day, which is taking place today.
For seven months, Fatima, 34, has been living in a women’s refuge — with her two-year-old son Sulaiman — after agreeing to leave prison.
In a highly publicized case, a Saudi judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani, 37, on July 20, 2005. The court decision was issued after Fatima’s half brothers filed a divorce case saying that Mansour had lied about his tribal background.
However, by that time Fatima and Mansour were already parents of two children. Fatima remains in the refuge, and refuses to return into the custody of the men who arranged for her marriage to be nullified.
Hussein Al-Sharif, head of the National Society of Human Rights’ (NSHR) Western Province branch and a law professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, said that although a higher court last January upheld the decision to nullify the marriage there is still a way out.
“The only legal way to end this family’s misery is for the king to intervene by asking the Supreme Judicial Council, the highest judicial authority in the Kingdom, to look at the case again,” he said.
Al-Sharif said that NSHR President Bandar Al-Hajjar sent an official letter to the Royal Court last September asking for the case to be reviewed. The NSHR provided along with the letter two studies, based on Islamic law, concluding that the divorce is invalid.
The studies have been undertaken by Adnan Al-Zahrani, a researcher in Islamic law, and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Makkah.
The two studies, copies of which have been obtained by Arab News, provide sayings from the Prophet (peace be upon him) as well as Islamic scholars negating the Al-Jouf judge’s decision to nullify Mansour and Fatima’s marriage.
Both scholars agreed that if the woman’s legal guardian represented the bride during the original wedding contract, then other members of the family have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility. Both studies stress that it is only the wife who can decide whether she wants her marriage to be annulled. Fatima married Mansour with the approval of her father.
However, for more than two years Fatima continues to yearn to be with Mansour. Since Arab News initially met her in November 2006 at Dammam Prison, Fatima continues to say, “I want to go back to my husband. I will never submit to anyone who wants to ruin my family.”
It seems that as the time passes, Fatima is becoming more resilient about her case. At the refuge, Fatima looks after her son Sulaiman and patiently awaits news on her case.
She is limited in how much she is allowed to venture out and is monitored. “I can hardly go outside and shop. If that happens, then I’m not allowed to go alone. The social workers say they fear my half brothers would see me outside,” said Fatima.
Since moving to the shelter, Fatima and Sulaiman have not seen Mansour nor Sulaiman’s elder sister Noha.
Last year Sulaiman celebrated his first birthday in prison and this Eid he will be at the shelter, which is more like an orphanage.
“Sometimes, I look at my son and wish I could get into his brain and know what this two-year-old could be possibly thinking?” said Fatima.
Fatima’s husband, Mansour, who lives temporarily in Riyadh with Noha, has not lost hope either. “I really wish our case reaches the council; if it did I’m sure they will rule for us getting back together,” he said.
In the same way that Fatima is suffering, Mansour is also. In July he was made to sign two gag orders by Dammam police preventing him from speaking to the press. When being made to sign the second gag order, Mansour was also detained with Noha.
After two years of separation, Mansour and Fatima have not lost hope of reuniting. “She is still my wife,” Mansour told Arab News, breaking the gag order.
“The best thing that happened to me is having children from Mansour. He will always be my husband and the father of my children,” said Fatima.
ஆனால் மன்னர் மனம் இன்னும் இரங்கவில்லை
Fatima and Mansour Still Have Hope, Says NSHR
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 10 December 2007 — Fatima, the forcefully divorced wife and perhaps the most spoken about Saudi woman in the past two years, knows nothing of the International Human Rights Day, which is taking place today.
For seven months, Fatima, 34, has been living in a women’s refuge — with her two-year-old son Sulaiman — after agreeing to leave prison.
In a highly publicized case, a Saudi judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani, 37, on July 20, 2005. The court decision was issued after Fatima’s half brothers filed a divorce case saying that Mansour had lied about his tribal background.
However, by that time Fatima and Mansour were already parents of two children. Fatima remains in the refuge, and refuses to return into the custody of the men who arranged for her marriage to be nullified.
Hussein Al-Sharif, head of the National Society of Human Rights’ (NSHR) Western Province branch and a law professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, said that although a higher court last January upheld the decision to nullify the marriage there is still a way out.
“The only legal way to end this family’s misery is for the king to intervene by asking the Supreme Judicial Council, the highest judicial authority in the Kingdom, to look at the case again,” he said.
Al-Sharif said that NSHR President Bandar Al-Hajjar sent an official letter to the Royal Court last September asking for the case to be reviewed. The NSHR provided along with the letter two studies, based on Islamic law, concluding that the divorce is invalid.
The studies have been undertaken by Adnan Al-Zahrani, a researcher in Islamic law, and Bassam Al-Bassam, a counselor at the Court of Cassation in Makkah.
The two studies, copies of which have been obtained by Arab News, provide sayings from the Prophet (peace be upon him) as well as Islamic scholars negating the Al-Jouf judge’s decision to nullify Mansour and Fatima’s marriage.
Both scholars agreed that if the woman’s legal guardian represented the bride during the original wedding contract, then other members of the family have no right to object to the marriage based on compatibility. Both studies stress that it is only the wife who can decide whether she wants her marriage to be annulled. Fatima married Mansour with the approval of her father.
However, for more than two years Fatima continues to yearn to be with Mansour. Since Arab News initially met her in November 2006 at Dammam Prison, Fatima continues to say, “I want to go back to my husband. I will never submit to anyone who wants to ruin my family.”
It seems that as the time passes, Fatima is becoming more resilient about her case. At the refuge, Fatima looks after her son Sulaiman and patiently awaits news on her case.
She is limited in how much she is allowed to venture out and is monitored. “I can hardly go outside and shop. If that happens, then I’m not allowed to go alone. The social workers say they fear my half brothers would see me outside,” said Fatima.
Since moving to the shelter, Fatima and Sulaiman have not seen Mansour nor Sulaiman’s elder sister Noha.
Last year Sulaiman celebrated his first birthday in prison and this Eid he will be at the shelter, which is more like an orphanage.
“Sometimes, I look at my son and wish I could get into his brain and know what this two-year-old could be possibly thinking?” said Fatima.
Fatima’s husband, Mansour, who lives temporarily in Riyadh with Noha, has not lost hope either. “I really wish our case reaches the council; if it did I’m sure they will rule for us getting back together,” he said.
In the same way that Fatima is suffering, Mansour is also. In July he was made to sign two gag orders by Dammam police preventing him from speaking to the press. When being made to sign the second gag order, Mansour was also detained with Noha.
After two years of separation, Mansour and Fatima have not lost hope of reuniting. “She is still my wife,” Mansour told Arab News, breaking the gag order.
“The best thing that happened to me is having children from Mansour. He will always be my husband and the father of my children,” said Fatima.
Friday, July 27, 2007
கட்டாய விவாகரத்து பற்றி பொருளாதார உச்சிமாநாட்டில் வாக்குவாதம்
கட்டாய விவாகரத்து பற்றி பொருளாதார உச்சிமாநாட்டில் வாக்குவாதம் நடந்தது.
சவுதி அரசாங்க பிரதிநிதிகளுக்கும் மனித உரிமை கழகத்தினருக்கும் இடையே வாக்குவாதம் நடந்தது.
சமீபத்தில் ஏராளமான இப்படிப்பட்ட கட்டாய விவாகரத்துகள் வெளிச்சத்துக்கு வந்துள்ளன. அரபு ஜாதிகளில் மேல்ஜாதி கீழ் ஜாதி பிரச்னையால், பல விவாகங்கள் கட்டாயமாக சவுதி நீதித்துறையால் விவாகரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.
இதனை மனித உரிமைக் க்ழகம் எதிர்க்கிறது. அரசாங்கம் சவுதி நீதித்துறைக்கு ஆதரவாக நின்று இந்த கட்டாய் விவாகரத்துக்களை ஆதரிக்கிறது.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Forced Divorce Now a Forum Issue
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
By Sabria S. Jawhar
The Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH
THE issue of forced divorce, an unlikely topic to be discussed at the Jeddah Economic Forum, became an unexpected hot-button topic during a panel session Monday that erupted into a brief confrontation between some audience members and Riyadh’s human rights representative.
During a question-and-answer period in the afternoon session on the role of law in economic reform attended by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Human Rights representative Abdullah Aziz Mohammed Hinaidi, the audience peppered Hinaidi with questions about his views of forced divorces.
The issue of forced divorce has become one of the hottest debates in Saudi Arabia after several cases have surfaced in recent months. The most controversial case involves Fatima Al-Timani, 34, and her husband Mansour Al-Timani, 37, who were divorced in absentia and against their will. In another case Rania Al-Bouenin and Saud Al-Khaledi also were forced to get divorced on a petition filed in Al-Khobar court by her father.
A squabble erupted when Dr. Ameera Kashgari, an English language professor and columnist, asked Hinaidi how forced divorces affect the development of emerging countries and whether it violates the human rights treaties signed by the Kingdom.
Moderator Alistar Stewart quickly cut her off. Hinaidi, however, attempted to answer the question by noting that Saudi Arabia “is committed to the treaties” it signed and that the government is doing a good job on the issue of human rights.
When pressed to give his own opinions abut such divorce cases, Hinaidi did not answer.
A man in the audience jumped up and asked the same question, noting his concern over the increasing number of forced divorce cases in the judicial system and the consequences of such cases if a divorce is granted.
Hinaidi replied that such cases were not good for society. He also said that the Human Rights Commission was cooperating with the government on the issue and that concerns have been “transferred to the Ministry of Justice.” He did not elaborate on how the Ministry of Justice was going to address the issue.
Hinaidi then told a story of a Saudi woman who fell in love with her driver and fled to the driver’s own country to marry him and to live there without her father’s permission. The father’s only recourse, he said, was to stop financial aid to his daughter and to block her private bank account. The woman has been married for several years and now has three children.
Several audience members complained the woman’s story was not relevant to the issue of forced divorce. Another female audience member accused Hinaidi of not directly answering the questions from the audience, but again Stewart cut off the question.
The session, several members of the audience filed out of the hall complaining that their opportunity to get answers about the issue was foiled by Stewart and Hinaidi’s reluctance to be forthright about his own views as a human rights representative.
சவுதி அரசாங்க பிரதிநிதிகளுக்கும் மனித உரிமை கழகத்தினருக்கும் இடையே வாக்குவாதம் நடந்தது.
சமீபத்தில் ஏராளமான இப்படிப்பட்ட கட்டாய விவாகரத்துகள் வெளிச்சத்துக்கு வந்துள்ளன. அரபு ஜாதிகளில் மேல்ஜாதி கீழ் ஜாதி பிரச்னையால், பல விவாகங்கள் கட்டாயமாக சவுதி நீதித்துறையால் விவாகரத்து செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன.
இதனை மனித உரிமைக் க்ழகம் எதிர்க்கிறது. அரசாங்கம் சவுதி நீதித்துறைக்கு ஆதரவாக நின்று இந்த கட்டாய் விவாகரத்துக்களை ஆதரிக்கிறது.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Forced Divorce Now a Forum Issue
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
By Sabria S. Jawhar
The Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH
THE issue of forced divorce, an unlikely topic to be discussed at the Jeddah Economic Forum, became an unexpected hot-button topic during a panel session Monday that erupted into a brief confrontation between some audience members and Riyadh’s human rights representative.
During a question-and-answer period in the afternoon session on the role of law in economic reform attended by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Human Rights representative Abdullah Aziz Mohammed Hinaidi, the audience peppered Hinaidi with questions about his views of forced divorces.
The issue of forced divorce has become one of the hottest debates in Saudi Arabia after several cases have surfaced in recent months. The most controversial case involves Fatima Al-Timani, 34, and her husband Mansour Al-Timani, 37, who were divorced in absentia and against their will. In another case Rania Al-Bouenin and Saud Al-Khaledi also were forced to get divorced on a petition filed in Al-Khobar court by her father.
A squabble erupted when Dr. Ameera Kashgari, an English language professor and columnist, asked Hinaidi how forced divorces affect the development of emerging countries and whether it violates the human rights treaties signed by the Kingdom.
Moderator Alistar Stewart quickly cut her off. Hinaidi, however, attempted to answer the question by noting that Saudi Arabia “is committed to the treaties” it signed and that the government is doing a good job on the issue of human rights.
When pressed to give his own opinions abut such divorce cases, Hinaidi did not answer.
A man in the audience jumped up and asked the same question, noting his concern over the increasing number of forced divorce cases in the judicial system and the consequences of such cases if a divorce is granted.
Hinaidi replied that such cases were not good for society. He also said that the Human Rights Commission was cooperating with the government on the issue and that concerns have been “transferred to the Ministry of Justice.” He did not elaborate on how the Ministry of Justice was going to address the issue.
Hinaidi then told a story of a Saudi woman who fell in love with her driver and fled to the driver’s own country to marry him and to live there without her father’s permission. The father’s only recourse, he said, was to stop financial aid to his daughter and to block her private bank account. The woman has been married for several years and now has three children.
Several audience members complained the woman’s story was not relevant to the issue of forced divorce. Another female audience member accused Hinaidi of not directly answering the questions from the audience, but again Stewart cut off the question.
The session, several members of the audience filed out of the hall complaining that their opportunity to get answers about the issue was foiled by Stewart and Hinaidi’s reluctance to be forthright about his own views as a human rights representative.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
கட்டாய விவாகரத்து: அல் டிமானுக்கு தொடரும் பிரச்னைகள்
புதன் கிழமையன்று அவரையும் அவரது மகளையும் கைது செய்த சவுதி போலிஸ் அடுத்த நாள் காலைவரை வைத்திருந்து விடுவித்தார்கள்.
அவர் பத்திரிக்கையாளர்களோடு பேசக்கூடாது என்று கட்டளையிட்டு அவரை கட்டாயமாக கையெழுத்திட வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
Al-Timani Forced to Sign Another Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 20 July 2007 — On Wednesday night Mansour Al-Timani, the 37-year-old forcibly divorced husband, and his three-year-old daughter Noha were detained without charges at an Alkhobar police station only to be released yesterday morning at 8:30 a.m.
A source from Alkhobar said that Al-Timani was detained by police officers while playing with his daughter on Alkhobar’s corniche at around 11:30 p.m. He was taken to a police station and spent two hours there without any charges being filed and, for the second time, was forced to sign a gag order preventing him from speaking to the press.
The source added that Al-Timani was then taken to a police station in Dammam at 2 a.m., where officers refused to detain him. He was then sent back to the Alkhobar police station.
At around 5 a.m., Al-Timani, together with his daughter, was taken to the Civil Rights Department at the police station, which also refused to be held accountable for his detention.
“Officials at the Civil Rights Department told the police officers that they would not detain Al-Timani and that they couldn’t break rules,” said the source. Al-Timani was then kept in custody with his daughter only to be released at 8:30 a.m. He has now been summoned to attend court in Dammam in mid-September in connection with a case his first wife, who is seeking a divorce from him, has filed against him.
Al-Timani refused to talk to Arab News, saying he is bound by a gag order. An insider from Alkhobar police station confirmed that Al-Timani spent Wednesday night at the police station with his child.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of the National Society of Human Rights (NSHR) in the western region, said that he was aware of the incident and was following the case closely.
“I’m mostly concerned about the mental state of Al-Timani’s child. She is surely facing difficult conditions in meeting policemen and spending time in prison with no counsel or social workers,” Al-Sharif said, adding that he is unsure of details surrounding Al-Timani’ detention and the court summons.
“We completely reject the gag order that forbids him from talking to the press. If, as a citizen, he wants the public to hear his unjust story then that’s his right,” he said.
This is the second time that Al-Timani has been detained by police without being charged with any crime. On June 26, Al-Timani said he was detained for three hours at a police station in Alkhobar. He told Arab News that the criminal prosecution took him from his home at 10:30 p.m. and that he was forced to sign a gag order preventing him from talking to the media. Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province, said that senior officials had ordered that Al-Timani sign the pledge.
In July 2005, a judge nullified Mansour Al-Timani’s marriage to his second wife, Fatima, 34, after her half brothers filed a case claiming that the husband had lied about his tribal background. The annulment was issued in spite of the couple having two children together.
Fatima, who refuses to return to her brothers, who are recognized as her legal guardians, is currently in a women’s shelter with her one-year-old child.
Human Rights Watch recently condemned the forced divorce and the subsequent harassment experienced by the couple on Tuesday after speaking to Al-Timani. “The Saudi government should provide fair treatment to the couple,” said an HRW statement.
அவர் பத்திரிக்கையாளர்களோடு பேசக்கூடாது என்று கட்டளையிட்டு அவரை கட்டாயமாக கையெழுத்திட வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள்.
Al-Timani Forced to Sign Another Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 20 July 2007 — On Wednesday night Mansour Al-Timani, the 37-year-old forcibly divorced husband, and his three-year-old daughter Noha were detained without charges at an Alkhobar police station only to be released yesterday morning at 8:30 a.m.
A source from Alkhobar said that Al-Timani was detained by police officers while playing with his daughter on Alkhobar’s corniche at around 11:30 p.m. He was taken to a police station and spent two hours there without any charges being filed and, for the second time, was forced to sign a gag order preventing him from speaking to the press.
The source added that Al-Timani was then taken to a police station in Dammam at 2 a.m., where officers refused to detain him. He was then sent back to the Alkhobar police station.
At around 5 a.m., Al-Timani, together with his daughter, was taken to the Civil Rights Department at the police station, which also refused to be held accountable for his detention.
“Officials at the Civil Rights Department told the police officers that they would not detain Al-Timani and that they couldn’t break rules,” said the source. Al-Timani was then kept in custody with his daughter only to be released at 8:30 a.m. He has now been summoned to attend court in Dammam in mid-September in connection with a case his first wife, who is seeking a divorce from him, has filed against him.
Al-Timani refused to talk to Arab News, saying he is bound by a gag order. An insider from Alkhobar police station confirmed that Al-Timani spent Wednesday night at the police station with his child.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of the National Society of Human Rights (NSHR) in the western region, said that he was aware of the incident and was following the case closely.
“I’m mostly concerned about the mental state of Al-Timani’s child. She is surely facing difficult conditions in meeting policemen and spending time in prison with no counsel or social workers,” Al-Sharif said, adding that he is unsure of details surrounding Al-Timani’ detention and the court summons.
“We completely reject the gag order that forbids him from talking to the press. If, as a citizen, he wants the public to hear his unjust story then that’s his right,” he said.
This is the second time that Al-Timani has been detained by police without being charged with any crime. On June 26, Al-Timani said he was detained for three hours at a police station in Alkhobar. He told Arab News that the criminal prosecution took him from his home at 10:30 p.m. and that he was forced to sign a gag order preventing him from talking to the media. Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province, said that senior officials had ordered that Al-Timani sign the pledge.
In July 2005, a judge nullified Mansour Al-Timani’s marriage to his second wife, Fatima, 34, after her half brothers filed a case claiming that the husband had lied about his tribal background. The annulment was issued in spite of the couple having two children together.
Fatima, who refuses to return to her brothers, who are recognized as her legal guardians, is currently in a women’s shelter with her one-year-old child.
Human Rights Watch recently condemned the forced divorce and the subsequent harassment experienced by the couple on Tuesday after speaking to Al-Timani. “The Saudi government should provide fair treatment to the couple,” said an HRW statement.
Friday, July 20, 2007
மேல்ஜாதி பெண்ணை திருமணம் செய்தால் விவாகரத்தா?
மேல்ஜாதி பெண்ணை திருமணம் செய்ததால், கட்டாய விவாகரத்து கொடுக்கப்பட்ட மன்சூர் அல் டிமானி அவர்களுக்கு தொல்லை அதிகரிக்கிறது.
இவர் இந்த வழக்கை பற்றி பேசக்கூடாது என்று இவர் மீது கேக்-ஆர்டர் சவுதி அரசாங்கத்தால் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
நன்றி அரபு நியூஸ்
Forcibly Divorced Husband Made to Sign Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 3 July 2007 — The story of the forcibly divorced couple Fatima and Mansour that shocked the Saudi street for over a year has not found closure and, according to the husband in the case, has continued with his unjustified detention and coercion in signing a gag order that the National Society of Human Rights says is illegal.
In this highly publicized case, a judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani on July 20, 2005 after her family intervened that the husband had lied about his tribal background. By the time the legal action against the couple was instigated by the wife’s half-brothers, the husband and wife were the parents of two children. The wife and younger child remain in a women’s shelter because she refuses to return to the custody of the men who intervened on her marriage, which has been sanctioned under Islam but apparently not on tribal grounds.
The elder daughter is living with her father in Alkhobar. Because a judge officiated the divorce imposed on the wife and husband by the wife’s half-brothers, Fatima cannot legally return to Al-Timani’s custody because the husband is no longer considered such by the courts, and therefore he cannot have legal custody of her. (Under Saudi law, all women regardless of age can only be returned to their legal male guardian, or mahram, who must be a relative by blood or marriage, or, in some cases where legal custody is being disputed, a court judge.)
On June 26, Al-Timani, 37, said that he spent three hours in detention at an Alkhobar police station. Two undercover officers knocked on his door at around 10:30 p.m. and asked him to come along peacefully lest they take him by force. They allegedly didn’t specify the charges.
“I refused to go at first, asking ‘what’s my crime?’ and how can I take my little daughter with me there?’ I didn’t want to make a scene late at night so I had no choice but to obey them.”
While in detention, Al-Timani told Arab News that he was told at the police station that he must sign a gag order preventing him from speaking about his case any further with the press. He said they showed him the order that obliged him to sign such a pledge that he says allegedly came from a high authority.
“The order is dated June 20,” said Al-Timani. “I just wanted to get out of there. That’s not the right place for a child to be. She should be in her bed not in a room in a police station.” So, he says, he signed the document. Then the police allegedly didn’t let him go, saying a court in Dammam had summoned him and that he should stay in a jail cell overnight. It wasn’t until a police investigator felt sympathy after seeing a young girl and her father in custody that he persuaded his fellow investigators to let them go home. “If it weren’t for him I would have stayed that night there with my child in the detention center,” said Al-Timani.
Arab News has tried to contact the officials in Alkhobar since Wednesday to get a response to Al-Timani’s statements. Local officials referred us to Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province. Yesterday, after a week of phone calls to get authorities to reply to Al-Timani’s claims, Arab News was able to confirm that Al-Timani was indeed escorted to a police station to sign the pledge not to speak to the press. “That’s true,” said Al-Qahtani. “Al-Timani was asked to come at the police station and signed that pledge due to a higher official’s orders.”
The colonel wouldn’t name the official, but shed some light on the possible reasons for the action against Al-Timani; he said that Fatima’s family members complained to a high official that Al-Timani’s statements to the press are harming the reputation and family name.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of NSHR in the western region, who is also a professor of Saudi law at King Abdul Aziz University, said that the detention for three hours and forcing him to sign a pledge not to speak to the press is against the law and violations of his personal rights.
“If it’s a court (gag) order that states he can’t speak to the media, then it’s totally within their (the court’s) rights. But no other authority can play the role of the judge.”
He added that Al-Timani being called to the police center is OK if it follows legal procedures.
“But I wonder were there anyone from the Social Affairs Ministry, like a social worker, at the time of the arrest to provide care for the child?” he asked. “If not, then they also abused the child’s personal rights by taking her to the police station all of a sudden at night.”
Al-Timani said he would be sending today an official complaint to the NSHR. After receiving it they will contact officials and inquire about it, said Al-Sharif.
Al-Sharif said that the NSHR is soon to present a complete study on the Fatima and Mansour forced-divorce case from both legal and Shariah side and present it to the king.
“King Abdullah can then assign the Higher Justice of Court to look at the case one more time,” he said. Since last March a committee at the Justice Ministry has been studying the issue of forced divorces on tribal grounds.
இவர் இந்த வழக்கை பற்றி பேசக்கூடாது என்று இவர் மீது கேக்-ஆர்டர் சவுதி அரசாங்கத்தால் கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
நன்றி அரபு நியூஸ்
Forcibly Divorced Husband Made to Sign Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 3 July 2007 — The story of the forcibly divorced couple Fatima and Mansour that shocked the Saudi street for over a year has not found closure and, according to the husband in the case, has continued with his unjustified detention and coercion in signing a gag order that the National Society of Human Rights says is illegal.
In this highly publicized case, a judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani on July 20, 2005 after her family intervened that the husband had lied about his tribal background. By the time the legal action against the couple was instigated by the wife’s half-brothers, the husband and wife were the parents of two children. The wife and younger child remain in a women’s shelter because she refuses to return to the custody of the men who intervened on her marriage, which has been sanctioned under Islam but apparently not on tribal grounds.
The elder daughter is living with her father in Alkhobar. Because a judge officiated the divorce imposed on the wife and husband by the wife’s half-brothers, Fatima cannot legally return to Al-Timani’s custody because the husband is no longer considered such by the courts, and therefore he cannot have legal custody of her. (Under Saudi law, all women regardless of age can only be returned to their legal male guardian, or mahram, who must be a relative by blood or marriage, or, in some cases where legal custody is being disputed, a court judge.)
On June 26, Al-Timani, 37, said that he spent three hours in detention at an Alkhobar police station. Two undercover officers knocked on his door at around 10:30 p.m. and asked him to come along peacefully lest they take him by force. They allegedly didn’t specify the charges.
“I refused to go at first, asking ‘what’s my crime?’ and how can I take my little daughter with me there?’ I didn’t want to make a scene late at night so I had no choice but to obey them.”
While in detention, Al-Timani told Arab News that he was told at the police station that he must sign a gag order preventing him from speaking about his case any further with the press. He said they showed him the order that obliged him to sign such a pledge that he says allegedly came from a high authority.
“The order is dated June 20,” said Al-Timani. “I just wanted to get out of there. That’s not the right place for a child to be. She should be in her bed not in a room in a police station.” So, he says, he signed the document. Then the police allegedly didn’t let him go, saying a court in Dammam had summoned him and that he should stay in a jail cell overnight. It wasn’t until a police investigator felt sympathy after seeing a young girl and her father in custody that he persuaded his fellow investigators to let them go home. “If it weren’t for him I would have stayed that night there with my child in the detention center,” said Al-Timani.
Arab News has tried to contact the officials in Alkhobar since Wednesday to get a response to Al-Timani’s statements. Local officials referred us to Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province. Yesterday, after a week of phone calls to get authorities to reply to Al-Timani’s claims, Arab News was able to confirm that Al-Timani was indeed escorted to a police station to sign the pledge not to speak to the press. “That’s true,” said Al-Qahtani. “Al-Timani was asked to come at the police station and signed that pledge due to a higher official’s orders.”
The colonel wouldn’t name the official, but shed some light on the possible reasons for the action against Al-Timani; he said that Fatima’s family members complained to a high official that Al-Timani’s statements to the press are harming the reputation and family name.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of NSHR in the western region, who is also a professor of Saudi law at King Abdul Aziz University, said that the detention for three hours and forcing him to sign a pledge not to speak to the press is against the law and violations of his personal rights.
“If it’s a court (gag) order that states he can’t speak to the media, then it’s totally within their (the court’s) rights. But no other authority can play the role of the judge.”
He added that Al-Timani being called to the police center is OK if it follows legal procedures.
“But I wonder were there anyone from the Social Affairs Ministry, like a social worker, at the time of the arrest to provide care for the child?” he asked. “If not, then they also abused the child’s personal rights by taking her to the police station all of a sudden at night.”
Al-Timani said he would be sending today an official complaint to the NSHR. After receiving it they will contact officials and inquire about it, said Al-Sharif.
Al-Sharif said that the NSHR is soon to present a complete study on the Fatima and Mansour forced-divorce case from both legal and Shariah side and present it to the king.
“King Abdullah can then assign the Higher Justice of Court to look at the case one more time,” he said. Since last March a committee at the Justice Ministry has been studying the issue of forced divorces on tribal grounds.
Friday, July 13, 2007
கணவன் தாழ்ந்த ஜாதி என்பதால் கட்டாயவிவாகரத்து
சென்ற வருடம் ஜூலையில் மன்சூர் அல் திமரி என்பவருக்கும், பாத்திமா எனற பெண்மணிக்கும் நட்ந்திருந்த திருமணம், மன்சூரின் தாழ்ந்த ஜாதி காரணமாக பாத்திமாவின் சகோதரர்களால் விவாகரத்து செய்யப்பட்டது.
இவர் இதனை பற்றி பேசக்கூடாது என்று மன்சூரிடம் கையெழுத்து வாங்கி அவரை சிறையில் அடைத்துள்ளனர். பாத்திமாவும் சிறையில் இருக்கிறார். இதனை மனித உரிமை சங்கம் கண்டித்துள்ளது. இந்த பிரச்னை மற்ற அரபு பத்திரிக்கைகளும் எடுத்து பேசியபடியால் இவர்கள் விடுதலை செய்யப்பட்டாலும், இருவரும் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் சந்திப்பது தடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
தாழ்ந்த சாதியைச் சேர்ந்த மன்சூர் பொய் சொல்லி பாத்திமாவை திருமணம் செய்திருப்பது சட்டப்படி குற்றம் என்று சொல்லி அவருக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுத்த நீதிபதியின் தீர்ப்பை மேல் முறையீட்டுக்கு சவுதி அரசரிடம் அனுப்பியுள்னர்.
இன்றைய சவுதி மன்னர் முன்பு இளவரசராக இருந்தபோது அவரது சகோதரி தாழ்ந்த சாதி அரபியனை திருமணம் செய்ததால், பார்க்கிங் லாட்டில் தம்பதியினர் கொல்லப்பட்டதை முன்பு பதிவாக எழுதியிருந்தேன்.
இதனை மன்னரிடம் எடுத்து செல்வதால் என்ன பயன் விளையும் என்று தெரியவில்லை.
இவர்கள் தங்கள் ஜாதிவெறி நீங்கி மனிதர்களை மனிதர்களாக் மதிக்க இறைவழி அன்பு வழி அமைதி வழி வர இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்.
Forcibly Divorced Husband Made to Sign Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 3 July 2007 — The story of the forcibly divorced couple Fatima and Mansour that shocked the Saudi street for over a year has not found closure and, according to the husband in the case, has continued with his unjustified detention and coercion in signing a gag order that the National Society of Human Rights says is illegal.
In this highly publicized case, a judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani on July 20, 2005 after her family intervened that the husband had lied about his tribal background. By the time the legal action against the couple was instigated by the wife’s half-brothers, the husband and wife were the parents of two children. The wife and younger child remain in a women’s shelter because she refuses to return to the custody of the men who intervened on her marriage, which has been sanctioned under Islam but apparently not on tribal grounds.
The elder daughter is living with her father in Alkhobar. Because a judge officiated the divorce imposed on the wife and husband by the wife’s half-brothers, Fatima cannot legally return to Al-Timani’s custody because the husband is no longer considered such by the courts, and therefore he cannot have legal custody of her. (Under Saudi law, all women regardless of age can only be returned to their legal male guardian, or mahram, who must be a relative by blood or marriage, or, in some cases where legal custody is being disputed, a court judge.)
On June 26, Al-Timani, 37, said that he spent three hours in detention at an Alkhobar police station. Two undercover officers knocked on his door at around 10:30 p.m. and asked him to come along peacefully lest they take him by force. They allegedly didn’t specify the charges.
“I refused to go at first, asking ‘what’s my crime?’ and how can I take my little daughter with me there?’ I didn’t want to make a scene late at night so I had no choice but to obey them.”
While in detention, Al-Timani told Arab News that he was told at the police station that he must sign a gag order preventing him from speaking about his case any further with the press. He said they showed him the order that obliged him to sign such a pledge that he says allegedly came from a high authority.
“The order is dated June 20,” said Al-Timani. “I just wanted to get out of there. That’s not the right place for a child to be. She should be in her bed not in a room in a police station.” So, he says, he signed the document. Then the police allegedly didn’t let him go, saying a court in Dammam had summoned him and that he should stay in a jail cell overnight. It wasn’t until a police investigator felt sympathy after seeing a young girl and her father in custody that he persuaded his fellow investigators to let them go home. “If it weren’t for him I would have stayed that night there with my child in the detention center,” said Al-Timani.
Arab News has tried to contact the officials in Alkhobar since Wednesday to get a response to Al-Timani’s statements. Local officials referred us to Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province. Yesterday, after a week of phone calls to get authorities to reply to Al-Timani’s claims, Arab News was able to confirm that Al-Timani was indeed escorted to a police station to sign the pledge not to speak to the press. “That’s true,” said Al-Qahtani. “Al-Timani was asked to come at the police station and signed that pledge due to a higher official’s orders.”
The colonel wouldn’t name the official, but shed some light on the possible reasons for the action against Al-Timani; he said that Fatima’s family members complained to a high official that Al-Timani’s statements to the press are harming the reputation and family name.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of NSHR in the western region, who is also a professor of Saudi law at King Abdul Aziz University, said that the detention for three hours and forcing him to sign a pledge not to speak to the press is against the law and violations of his personal rights.
“If it’s a court (gag) order that states he can’t speak to the media, then it’s totally within their (the court’s) rights. But no other authority can play the role of the judge.”
He added that Al-Timani being called to the police center is OK if it follows legal procedures.
“But I wonder were there anyone from the Social Affairs Ministry, like a social worker, at the time of the arrest to provide care for the child?” he asked. “If not, then they also abused the child’s personal rights by taking her to the police station all of a sudden at night.”
Al-Timani said he would be sending today an official complaint to the NSHR. After receiving it they will contact officials and inquire about it, said Al-Sharif.
Al-Sharif said that the NSHR is soon to present a complete study on the Fatima and Mansour forced-divorce case from both legal and Shariah side and present it to the king.
“King Abdullah can then assign the Higher Justice of Court to look at the case one more time,” he said. Since last March a committee at the Justice Ministry has been studying the issue of forced divorces on tribal
இவர் இதனை பற்றி பேசக்கூடாது என்று மன்சூரிடம் கையெழுத்து வாங்கி அவரை சிறையில் அடைத்துள்ளனர். பாத்திமாவும் சிறையில் இருக்கிறார். இதனை மனித உரிமை சங்கம் கண்டித்துள்ளது. இந்த பிரச்னை மற்ற அரபு பத்திரிக்கைகளும் எடுத்து பேசியபடியால் இவர்கள் விடுதலை செய்யப்பட்டாலும், இருவரும் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் சந்திப்பது தடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
தாழ்ந்த சாதியைச் சேர்ந்த மன்சூர் பொய் சொல்லி பாத்திமாவை திருமணம் செய்திருப்பது சட்டப்படி குற்றம் என்று சொல்லி அவருக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுத்த நீதிபதியின் தீர்ப்பை மேல் முறையீட்டுக்கு சவுதி அரசரிடம் அனுப்பியுள்னர்.
இன்றைய சவுதி மன்னர் முன்பு இளவரசராக இருந்தபோது அவரது சகோதரி தாழ்ந்த சாதி அரபியனை திருமணம் செய்ததால், பார்க்கிங் லாட்டில் தம்பதியினர் கொல்லப்பட்டதை முன்பு பதிவாக எழுதியிருந்தேன்.
இதனை மன்னரிடம் எடுத்து செல்வதால் என்ன பயன் விளையும் என்று தெரியவில்லை.
இவர்கள் தங்கள் ஜாதிவெறி நீங்கி மனிதர்களை மனிதர்களாக் மதிக்க இறைவழி அன்பு வழி அமைதி வழி வர இறையை இறைஞ்சுவோம்.
Forcibly Divorced Husband Made to Sign Gag Order
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 3 July 2007 — The story of the forcibly divorced couple Fatima and Mansour that shocked the Saudi street for over a year has not found closure and, according to the husband in the case, has continued with his unjustified detention and coercion in signing a gag order that the National Society of Human Rights says is illegal.
In this highly publicized case, a judge nullified Fatima’s marriage to Mansour Al-Timani on July 20, 2005 after her family intervened that the husband had lied about his tribal background. By the time the legal action against the couple was instigated by the wife’s half-brothers, the husband and wife were the parents of two children. The wife and younger child remain in a women’s shelter because she refuses to return to the custody of the men who intervened on her marriage, which has been sanctioned under Islam but apparently not on tribal grounds.
The elder daughter is living with her father in Alkhobar. Because a judge officiated the divorce imposed on the wife and husband by the wife’s half-brothers, Fatima cannot legally return to Al-Timani’s custody because the husband is no longer considered such by the courts, and therefore he cannot have legal custody of her. (Under Saudi law, all women regardless of age can only be returned to their legal male guardian, or mahram, who must be a relative by blood or marriage, or, in some cases where legal custody is being disputed, a court judge.)
On June 26, Al-Timani, 37, said that he spent three hours in detention at an Alkhobar police station. Two undercover officers knocked on his door at around 10:30 p.m. and asked him to come along peacefully lest they take him by force. They allegedly didn’t specify the charges.
“I refused to go at first, asking ‘what’s my crime?’ and how can I take my little daughter with me there?’ I didn’t want to make a scene late at night so I had no choice but to obey them.”
While in detention, Al-Timani told Arab News that he was told at the police station that he must sign a gag order preventing him from speaking about his case any further with the press. He said they showed him the order that obliged him to sign such a pledge that he says allegedly came from a high authority.
“The order is dated June 20,” said Al-Timani. “I just wanted to get out of there. That’s not the right place for a child to be. She should be in her bed not in a room in a police station.” So, he says, he signed the document. Then the police allegedly didn’t let him go, saying a court in Dammam had summoned him and that he should stay in a jail cell overnight. It wasn’t until a police investigator felt sympathy after seeing a young girl and her father in custody that he persuaded his fellow investigators to let them go home. “If it weren’t for him I would have stayed that night there with my child in the detention center,” said Al-Timani.
Arab News has tried to contact the officials in Alkhobar since Wednesday to get a response to Al-Timani’s statements. Local officials referred us to Col. Yousif Al-Qahtani, a police spokesman for the Eastern Province. Yesterday, after a week of phone calls to get authorities to reply to Al-Timani’s claims, Arab News was able to confirm that Al-Timani was indeed escorted to a police station to sign the pledge not to speak to the press. “That’s true,” said Al-Qahtani. “Al-Timani was asked to come at the police station and signed that pledge due to a higher official’s orders.”
The colonel wouldn’t name the official, but shed some light on the possible reasons for the action against Al-Timani; he said that Fatima’s family members complained to a high official that Al-Timani’s statements to the press are harming the reputation and family name.
Hussein Al-Sharif, the head of NSHR in the western region, who is also a professor of Saudi law at King Abdul Aziz University, said that the detention for three hours and forcing him to sign a pledge not to speak to the press is against the law and violations of his personal rights.
“If it’s a court (gag) order that states he can’t speak to the media, then it’s totally within their (the court’s) rights. But no other authority can play the role of the judge.”
He added that Al-Timani being called to the police center is OK if it follows legal procedures.
“But I wonder were there anyone from the Social Affairs Ministry, like a social worker, at the time of the arrest to provide care for the child?” he asked. “If not, then they also abused the child’s personal rights by taking her to the police station all of a sudden at night.”
Al-Timani said he would be sending today an official complaint to the NSHR. After receiving it they will contact officials and inquire about it, said Al-Sharif.
Al-Sharif said that the NSHR is soon to present a complete study on the Fatima and Mansour forced-divorce case from both legal and Shariah side and present it to the king.
“King Abdullah can then assign the Higher Justice of Court to look at the case one more time,” he said. Since last March a committee at the Justice Ministry has been studying the issue of forced divorces on tribal
Thursday, December 21, 2006
இதுதான் இஸ்லாமிய ஷாரியாவா?
Sixth Month in Prison for Fatima and Child
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 20 December 2006 — Fatima, the 34-year-old woman who was divorced in absentia against her will from her husband by a judge at the request of her half-brothers, has entered her sixth month of incarceration at a prison in Dammam. The husband, Mansour Al-Timani, 37, says prison officials have impeded his ability to communicate with the woman that he still considers his wife.
In October, prison officials insisted that Mansour take custody of the older of the two children, two-year-old Noha. She was allowed to keep her 11-month-old son, Salman, in prison with her.
“Since that time the connection between me and (Fatima) by telephone has totally been cut off,” said Mansour.
The official that answered the phone at the prison, who would not provide his name, said that since the two are officially divorced, Mansour no longer has the right to call by telephone. “Communicating with prisoners has certain channels and procedures,” said the voice on the other end of the line.
Mansour said he is allowed 15 minutes with his wife when he visits in person on Saturdays so that the children — one with the mother in prison and the other with the father outside — can spend time with both parents.
Fatima in fact has the freedom to return to the custody of her family (women of any age are legally required to have a mahram, or male guardian) but she has refused saying she would only walk out of prison into the arms of the man she still considers her husband.
On July 20, 2005, Justice Ibrahim Al-Farraj divorced the couple in their absence in the northern city of Al-Jouf at the request of two of Fatima’s half-brothers. They claim that Mansour hid his tribal affiliation when he sought permission from the now-deceased father to marry the woman, a charge Mansour denies and is irrelevant because under Shariah, tribal affiliation is not a consideration for a legitimate marriage.
The couple were not only divorced in absentia after nearly three years of marriage, but were not informed immediately of the decision. They were arrested later in Jeddah (where they had fled after learning of the ruling, hoping to find help from an official here). Mansour was later released, but Fatima refused to return to the custody of her family and therefore languishes in prison.
Meanwhile, Justice Al-Farraj hasn’t been seen at his court since early November. The Ministry of Justice would not comment on whether the judge is under suspension or being investigated for his ruling that has angered the public — the court’s decision was even ridiculed in the popular television comedy serial “Tash.”
Fatima’s lawyer, Abdul Rahman Al-Lahem, said his appeal against the divorce ruling, submitted Oct. 7, is still pending.
“I know that the cassation court has ordered the file from the court in Al-Jouf for review... That’s a good move,” said Al-Lahem.
Until the next step in a judicial process that has taken over a year is made, the husband and wife have nothing to do but wait: She in prison and he outside.
***
எனக்கு புரியாத விஷயங்கள்.
அந்த பெண்ணின் சகோதரர்களால் அவளுடைய விருப்பத்துக்கு மாறாக எப்படி அவளுக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுத்தார்கள்?
அந்த சகோதரர்கள் அந்த பெண்ணின் கணவன் தன்னுடைய ஒரிஜினல் ஜாதியை சொல்லாமல் மறைத்து விட்டான் என்றுசொல்லி விவாகரத்தை செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்!
அந்த நீதிபதியும் ஒப்புக்கொண்டு அந்த பெண்ணை அவளது கணவனிடமிருந்து பிரித்து விட்டார்!
எதற்காக அந்த பெண்ணை கைது செய்து சிறைக்கு அனுப்பினார்கள்?
ஜாதி இருப்பது தவறில்லை. ஆனால் அது வெறியாகி விடக்கூடாது. அந்த பெண்ணை தன் கணவனிடமிருந்து பிரித்தது அனியாயம்.
இந்தியாவில் எந்த ஒரு நீதிபதியும் வேறு ஜாதி என்பதற்காக திருமணத்தை ரத்து செய்யமாட்டார்! எப்போதுதான் அரேபியர்களுக்கு புத்தி வரப்போகிறதோ!
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News
JEDDAH, 20 December 2006 — Fatima, the 34-year-old woman who was divorced in absentia against her will from her husband by a judge at the request of her half-brothers, has entered her sixth month of incarceration at a prison in Dammam. The husband, Mansour Al-Timani, 37, says prison officials have impeded his ability to communicate with the woman that he still considers his wife.
In October, prison officials insisted that Mansour take custody of the older of the two children, two-year-old Noha. She was allowed to keep her 11-month-old son, Salman, in prison with her.
“Since that time the connection between me and (Fatima) by telephone has totally been cut off,” said Mansour.
The official that answered the phone at the prison, who would not provide his name, said that since the two are officially divorced, Mansour no longer has the right to call by telephone. “Communicating with prisoners has certain channels and procedures,” said the voice on the other end of the line.
Mansour said he is allowed 15 minutes with his wife when he visits in person on Saturdays so that the children — one with the mother in prison and the other with the father outside — can spend time with both parents.
Fatima in fact has the freedom to return to the custody of her family (women of any age are legally required to have a mahram, or male guardian) but she has refused saying she would only walk out of prison into the arms of the man she still considers her husband.
On July 20, 2005, Justice Ibrahim Al-Farraj divorced the couple in their absence in the northern city of Al-Jouf at the request of two of Fatima’s half-brothers. They claim that Mansour hid his tribal affiliation when he sought permission from the now-deceased father to marry the woman, a charge Mansour denies and is irrelevant because under Shariah, tribal affiliation is not a consideration for a legitimate marriage.
The couple were not only divorced in absentia after nearly three years of marriage, but were not informed immediately of the decision. They were arrested later in Jeddah (where they had fled after learning of the ruling, hoping to find help from an official here). Mansour was later released, but Fatima refused to return to the custody of her family and therefore languishes in prison.
Meanwhile, Justice Al-Farraj hasn’t been seen at his court since early November. The Ministry of Justice would not comment on whether the judge is under suspension or being investigated for his ruling that has angered the public — the court’s decision was even ridiculed in the popular television comedy serial “Tash.”
Fatima’s lawyer, Abdul Rahman Al-Lahem, said his appeal against the divorce ruling, submitted Oct. 7, is still pending.
“I know that the cassation court has ordered the file from the court in Al-Jouf for review... That’s a good move,” said Al-Lahem.
Until the next step in a judicial process that has taken over a year is made, the husband and wife have nothing to do but wait: She in prison and he outside.
***
எனக்கு புரியாத விஷயங்கள்.
அந்த பெண்ணின் சகோதரர்களால் அவளுடைய விருப்பத்துக்கு மாறாக எப்படி அவளுக்கு விவாகரத்து கொடுத்தார்கள்?
அந்த சகோதரர்கள் அந்த பெண்ணின் கணவன் தன்னுடைய ஒரிஜினல் ஜாதியை சொல்லாமல் மறைத்து விட்டான் என்றுசொல்லி விவாகரத்தை செய்திருக்கிறார்கள்!
அந்த நீதிபதியும் ஒப்புக்கொண்டு அந்த பெண்ணை அவளது கணவனிடமிருந்து பிரித்து விட்டார்!
எதற்காக அந்த பெண்ணை கைது செய்து சிறைக்கு அனுப்பினார்கள்?
ஜாதி இருப்பது தவறில்லை. ஆனால் அது வெறியாகி விடக்கூடாது. அந்த பெண்ணை தன் கணவனிடமிருந்து பிரித்தது அனியாயம்.
இந்தியாவில் எந்த ஒரு நீதிபதியும் வேறு ஜாதி என்பதற்காக திருமணத்தை ரத்து செய்யமாட்டார்! எப்போதுதான் அரேபியர்களுக்கு புத்தி வரப்போகிறதோ!
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