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Man sends son-in-law to jail, forces daughter to go with new husband By ARAB NEWS Published: May 6, 2010 01:27 Updated: May 6, 2010 01:27 MADINAH: A Shariah Court in Madinah is looking into the case of a married woman who has filed a complaint against her father that he has misused his parental authority to marry her off to a man even though she wants to continue living with her first husband. The first husband, a Tunisian expatriate, has also complained to Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majid that he was jailed by the Passport Department after his father-in-law, who is also his sponsor, filed a false allegation against him, Al-Madinah newspaper reported. The husband claims a judge in Madinah sided with his father-in-law to take away his rights over his wife while he was in prison. Prince Abdul Aziz has ordered the Passport Department to investigate why the man was put in jail. Trouble between the father and his son-in-law began five years ago. In her complaint, the daughter said her father initially agreed to allow her to marry the Tunisian man and then withdrew his permission. He also refused to return the SR20,000 that her husband gave in dowry. The Tunisian filed a lawsuit to force her father to return the dowry and an additional SR57,000 that he owed him. In the meantime, the father complained to the Passport Department that the Tunisian had entered the Kingdom on a forged visa. The Tunisian man was subsequently put in jail for a month. The daughter then filed a lawsuit against her father that he had canceled her marriage. The Tunisian man also made moves to report him to the governor of Madinah at which the father permitted the marriage as long as the husband abandons his claims for the money. The Tunisian man agreed and he was subsequently freed from prison. The couple then married and had two children together. "When my husband's iqama (residence permit) came up for renewal he asked my father, who is his sponsor, to renew it. My father refused and filed a false complaint that he had run away from his sponsor," said the wife in her complaint. "This led to a fistfight between the two. My father complained to the police that my husband attacked him so violently that he had to stay in hospital for five days. As a result, my husband was given two months of jail term. He was also forced to pay him SR28,000," she added. "My husband had to be in jail for a year because, according to prison officials, his sponsor had failed to come and take him away," she added. After that, the father applied pressure on the Tunisian man to divorce his daughter. However, a few days later the husband called her from jail to tell her that he had revoked his divorce and that she was still his wife. In the meantime, the father married her off to another man. When the father compelled her to go with her second husband, she left home and filed the complain. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
