The High Sharia Appeals Court has granted a divorce to an Arab woman who was sent to her home country to give birth and subsequently abandoned by her Bahraini husband. According to the court records, the woman married the defendant in 2019 and gave birth to a baby girl in 2020. Fearing repercussions from his first wife, the Bahraini man sent the Arab woman back to her home after convincing her that it would be better to be among her family members to receive full care and support from them. “He told me to stay until I give birth to the child, and then I would return back,” the woman told judges at the High Sharia Court. “However, he stopped answering my calls and responding to my messages.” The woman’s lawyer Mohammed Al Thawadhi argued before the court that the defendant neglected his financial and legal obligations despite repeated attempts to contact him and urge him to facilitate her return, including obtaining a passport for their daughter and a residency permit for herself. “He cited concerns about his first wife as the reason for his inaction,” the lawyer told the court. This left the woman and her sick daughter, who […]