Custody battle: Adam's mother wins visitation rights

The British mother who has lost the battle for the custody of her son to his Qatari family on Monday won the right to see him.

"I am overjoyed. At last I will be able to see my little boy. We have a visit with Adam on Wednesday from 4 to 8," Rebecca Jones said.

"In court today, the Qatari family tried to block the visit, but the judge did not agree. They asked for armed guards from the ministry of interior to be present, but that was also turned down," Rebecca said in a short message to her supporters on Facebook, minutes after the Qatar's Cassation Court issued its ruling allowing the distraught mother to spend time with her son whom she had not seen since October 5.

A fierce battle for the custody of 10-year-old Adam broke out in October after the family of his biological father who died in 2005 filed a case to keep him in Doha. The family held the boy who was on a short trip to Qatar with his mother and eventually won the case after a Qatari court ruled in their favour.

However, the Bahrain-based mother who divorced Adam's father one year after their marriage in 1999 has been fighting relentlessly to be reunited with her son, supported by thousands of people mainly from the British community and on Facebook.