Bitter custody battle between British mother and Qatari in-laws continues
Rebecca Jones, the British mother, said that she was on Tuesday called to the public prosecution.
Manama: Rebecca Jones, the British mother at the centre of a bitter battle with her Qatari former in-laws over the custody of her son, said that she was on Tuesday called to the public prosecution.
Rebecca said that she was summoned after the son's uncle, Fahad Al Madhaiki, started legal procedures against her.
"I have just been called to the Public Prosecution. It seems that Fahad is not content with kidnapping my son and keeping him away from me. He has filed a criminal case against me and would like to put me in jail for changing my son's name. My son was born Adam Chapman and was issued a passport in that name five days later," Rebecca wrote in Facebook, the media she has been using to communicate with a growing number of people who supported her. "However in case I am arrested and you do not hear from me, please keep fighting for Adam."
Rebecca last month lost the custody battle over the 10-year-old son born from her marriage with his Qatari father, Jamal Al Madhaiki, in 1999. The couple divorced one year later and Jamal died in a motorcycle accident in 2005.
The mother was on a visit to the Qatari capital with Adam when he was kept in his grandmother's house and she had to face a local court over custody rights. Rebecca was told that Adam's grandmother would bring him up, but was accorded visitation rights.
She has now been reunited with her son four times since the cassation Court issued its order to allow biweekly three-hour meetings between mother and son.
Ahead of her fourth visit on Monday, she said that she got him "some board games and just some stuff to fill the time."
"The time together goes so quickly, but sometimes it's difficult to know what to do. I've also got him some sweets and a few toys to play with," the mother was reported as saying.
But Bahrain-based Rebecca said that she was determined to keep the fight to take her son home and decided to stay in Qatar amid concerns she would not be allowed into the country if she left. She has been in Doha since October 3.
Around 8.500 people have formed a Facebook group demanding Adam's return and a petition that will be sent to world leaders including Shaikha Moza, wife of Qatar's Amir, as well British Premier Gordon Brown has gathered more than 4,100 signatures so far.
