Another dumb broad getting her just desserts...
Canadian woman says Saudi government is blocking her trip home with her children
Postmedia News
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
MONTREAL — A Quebec woman who has been trying for years to leave Saudi Arabia with her three children now says her husband has agreed to come with her, but the Saudi government has refused to issue passports to her children.
Nathalie Morin has been trying for six years to persuade her husband to let her leave Saudi Arabia and return to Quebec with her kids.
Her husband, Saeed Al Bishi, agreed in November to allow Morin to come home, only after the Canadian government issued him a temporary visa so he could accompany them, Morin claims.
But the woman says she has run up against another obstacle: she says the Saudi government has blocked her travel plans by refusing to issue passports to her three children, one of whom was born in Canada.
Morin, 27, sent an email to media organizations across North America this week asking Ottawa to intervene on her behalf.
“We are ready to travel to Canada together, but the government of Saudi Arabia has refused to give passports to our children,” she said in the email.
Morin claims Saudi officials have put her three children on a “national black list since 2009.”
Under Saudi law, Morin needs her husband’s permission to leave the country with her children.
Morin met Al Bishi in Montreal in 2001. The couple had a child together in 2002, but Al Bishi was deported to Saudi Arabia that year for being in Canada illegally.
After two visits to Saudi Arabia, Morin moved there in 2005 to try to build a happy family life for her son, but the situation soon turned ugly.
Morin, who lives in Dammam, 400 kilometres east of the capital, Riyadh, says she is held captive indoors, deprived of food and beaten.
Morin’s mother, Johanne Durocher, has been waging a battle to bring her daughter and grandchildren back to Canada.
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