MANAMA - Women abandoned by their husbands in Bahrain broke their silence and staged two sit-ins earlier this month to highlight the legal challenges they faced in getting their marriage annulled. Their cases have now been taken up by the Women’s Union when some of these women approached it last week, seeking its help in getting their case heard at courts.
“We received some of the women who took part in two protests at the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs and Ministry of Social Development and promised them to look into their matter at the earliest,” President of the Women’s Union, Mariam Al Ruwai told Khaleej Times yesterday. She said the union would also raise the demand of implementing a family law to govern such cases at Shariah courts.
Those women have been dumped by their husbands long ago who have also stopped offering them any financial assistance. However, these women failed to get divorce because of legal complications. They have been protesting for not being able to get any financial support from the government because all assistance still go to their husbands because they are officially still married.
One of these women is Ruqaya who did not know when she got married in 1996 and had no idea of the legal hassles she had to face for choosing a man she considered right at the time of marriage. Read more ...
“We received some of the women who took part in two protests at the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs and Ministry of Social Development and promised them to look into their matter at the earliest,” President of the Women’s Union, Mariam Al Ruwai told Khaleej Times yesterday. She said the union would also raise the demand of implementing a family law to govern such cases at Shariah courts.
Those women have been dumped by their husbands long ago who have also stopped offering them any financial assistance. However, these women failed to get divorce because of legal complications. They have been protesting for not being able to get any financial support from the government because all assistance still go to their husbands because they are officially still married.
One of these women is Ruqaya who did not know when she got married in 1996 and had no idea of the legal hassles she had to face for choosing a man she considered right at the time of marriage. Read more ...
Source: Khaleej Times
H/T: Shariah Finance Watch
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