Child recovery: Abduction charges: It has been confirmed four members of a Channel Nine TV crew and an Australian mother are to be formally charged with kidnapping-related offences in Lebanon.
The botched kidnapping attempt in Lebanon that landed a Channel Nine crew in jail has highlighted the dangers of parental-child abductions.
Lebanese father speaks about alleged abduction
Beirut – 20 April 2016 1. Ali El Amine, Lebanese father of two children at the heart of custody dispute, UPSOUND (Arabic): “I’m not ready to say anything right now.” 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali El Amine, Lebanese father of two children at the heart of custody dispute: “From day one I said I have nothing […]
Adib & Houalla Law Office

E.M. (Lebanon) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 64, [2008] 3 W.L.R. 931

The proceedings, which were in the context of immigration and asylum law rather than child abduction law, related to a Lebanese mother and child, the latter born in July 1996. They had travelled to the United Kingdom in December 2004 ostensibly to escape the consequences of the Lebanese family justice system. Once in the United […]
Lebanon
