Ras Al Khaimah: An Arab woman has been accused of being married to two men at the same time.
The case was presented before Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Court yesterday.
A lawyer for the woman told the court she is innocent, a Judiciary official at Ras Al Khaimah court told Gulf News on Thursday.
Officials confirmed the act is a crime and prohibited in Islam.
Preside Judge Yousuf Rajab heard the case.
The 28-year-old Egyptian woman is allegedly married to two men from different nationalities — an Egyptian man and, following a recent marriage, to a 32-year-old Emirati.
Her Emirati husband has filed a case against the woman, who married him in secret. They married at the start of the year and were together for four months.
He also rented an apartment for her in Sharjah.
While the couple were at a shopping mall in Sharjah, the Egyptian man appeared and claimed the woman was also his wife and asked her to join him, an official said.
The two men argued before a physical fight broke out between them.
Her second husband, the Emirati man, discovered his wife was already married and had never divorced.
The woman told the judge that her first husband, the Egyptian man, had divorced her three times previously but wanted to remarry her so he cheated a judge by not informing him of the divorces. This means, the woman claims, that she then became remarried to her husband.
The woman, who is currently outside of the UAE, has claimed that she believed she was no longer married to the Egyptian man as the judge had been cheated.
Her lawyer is following up the case.
“I don’t think the proper investigation has been done,” said the woman’s lawyer to the judge.
“She has a marital record, which was registered in Egypt, which proves she was divorced from her first husband,” he added.
Officials say her marital status came into question when she married the Emirati man in the UAE at the start of the year — they claim she was also married to a man in Egypt.
Despite this, her lawyer expects the case to be wrapped up at the next court date in October.
