In exchange for 50,000 dirhams, a young girl from [Fez] agreed to tie her destiny to a Gulf national through a religious marriage, before being repudiated.
A Moroccan national abroad, prosecuted for having married 3 men, was sentenced to 6 months in prison by the court of first instance in Fès .
Last year saw an impressive number of marriage requests for minors in Morocco. Addressing the issue before the House of Representatives, the Minister of Justice put forward figures that are worrying.
Leila, 24, says she is a victim of a Fatiha marriage, after being in a relationship with Mohamed Tahari, a lawyer and member of the PJD. She is fighting for the child born of this customary marriage to be recognized by his father and registered in the civil registry.
Pamela Anderson married, on Monday, January 20, one of her ex-partners from thirty years ago, film producer Jon Peters, in the utmost secrecy. This marriage comes six months after her separation from the Franco-Moroccan international, Adil Rami.
Certain traditional practices continue to resist time in Arab and Muslim countries like Morocco , to the point that marriage can shatter after the wedding night. Women pay the heavy price.
Arrived in Marrakech for an arranged marriage, an Italian national found herself kidnapped by the host family, in inhuman conditions.
The singer Dounia Batma , prohibited from leaving the national territory as part of the "Hamza mon bb" case, is visibly forced to host wedding parties. Performances she had refused until now.
A man had kidnapped a young woman in his home in Toulouse for hours, in a car because of her refusal to marry him. The Evry-Courcouronnes criminal court sentenced him to 10 months in prison with a suspended sentence.
While he is the father of eight children, three of whom have died, a fifty-year-old man living in a douar near Kelaâ des Sraghna, discovers, to his great surprise, his state of sterility after 30 years of marriage.
Hakim*, a 65-year-old Liège resident of Moroccan origin, strangely receives half of his pension due to a separation by repudiation, effective for 41 years, but not recognized by the federal administration.
A Moroccan woman, residing in Spain, is being prosecuted under arrest at the local prison of Bourkayez, in Fez, for adultery, polyandry and document forgery. Her trial will open this Thursday, January 9.