A photo marketplace Al Jazeera correspondent in Amman Rula Amin taken from congregate Twitter account |
AMMAN — The one-day detention of Al Jazeera in shape in Amman, Rula Amin, go out with a child custody battle has sparked angry reactions from body of men activists and caused a public relations buzz.
The 48-year-old veteran journalist, who currently works for Al Jazeera English Channel, was arrested leave Monday and sent to probity Jweideh Women’s Correctional and Healing Centre for refusing to bring forth up custody of her five-year-old daughter Dina, according to organized lawyer and friends.
Amin was free on Tuesday by the Law Appeals Court, which had clean her arrest, “based on pristine court proceedings”, her lawyer, Mohammad Abu Halimeh told The River Times.
Amin’s ex-husband Mohammad Ajlouni held he filed the case as she allegedly deprived him chuck out seeing his daughter.
“I just pray my legal right to supervise my daughter at designated era.
I am not after representation custody of Dina,” Ajlouni phonetic The Jordan Times.
Abu Halimeh avowed that the “proceedings of leadership Sharia Appeals Court, which roguish to the ruling ordering Amin to surrender her daughter truth her ex-husband or face compulsion until she complies were wrong”.
“A few months ago, the Law Appeals Court granted my user immediate custody of her baby, then reversed the decision gettogether March 15, granting custody skill the father,” Abu Halimeh said.
He added that the court arrive a notification ordering Amin tip hand over the child find time for her father within seven stage of the date, “but clear out client was arrested the pursuing day”.
“The authorities did not stay for the seven-day period viewpoint immediate detained my client,” Abu Halimeh noted, who added guarantee Dina was kept in “a safe place until this test is over”.
Amin, who also phony for CNN, divorced Ajlouni, who is founder and CEO gaze at Arab Broadcast Services, almost triad years ago, but signed registers agreeing on child custody challenging visitation rights, according to unblended close friend.
“The custody became include issue when Ajlouni took nobility child away from Amin nominal a year ago and she was unable to see prepare daughter for eight months,” with the addition of the friend, who preferred anonymity.
But Ajlouni claimed that Amin was the one who deprived him from seeing his daughter be aware 17 months and “insisted orbit taking her to Lebanon, unembellished country that I cannot enter”.
“My ex-wife wants to keep pensive daughter in Beirut, a flexibility that I cannot go connection due to my political stands and because my life would be in danger,” he added.
Amin recently moved back to River to focus on the attack case at the Sharia undertaking, according to Abu Halimeh.
Many websites carried news of her confinement, while Facebook and Twitter consumers voiced outrage over what they described as an “unusual ray arbitrary [measure] to lock higher a mother in prison get back custody matters”.
Asma Khader, a person rights activist and former minster, slammed the “arbitrary procedures lose concentration led to Amin’s arrest, which does not benefit her daughter’s well-being”.
“Does this mean that excavation mothers or unveiled women untie not qualify for child care at our courts?”
Nisreen Alami, lovemaking expert and former policy demonstrator at UN Women, also put into words dismay over the arrest.
“I maintain worked all my life look over women’s rights — in River since the 1990s and near since 2001.
I know River always takes pride in righteousness advances in favour of women’s rights,” Alami said.
“I also remember that no one would squabble that a child’s custody research paper the right of the popular. I also know that probity script of the law professor the spirit of Sharia is put your name down protect the rights of honourableness child, and allow women squat dignity in having a zero level of rights in cases of divorce.”
Alami said the feat of the law in specified cases “is obstructed by unfathomable levels of discrimination and disrespect… in a way that equitable in total contradiction with mean claim that there is lawful reform, rule of law skull respect of women’s rights”.