Thursday, August 24, 2006

The women abandoned in Morocco / Radio Netherlands, 23 Aug 2006

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/ned060823a
Wim Jansen
"It happens each year - often during the summer holidays - to between 20 and 30 women visiting Morocco: they are left behind against their will by their husband or father. Their passports are taken off them and they are abandoned to their fate, while the rest of the family travels back to the Netherlands. It's an easy way for a husband to separate from his wife, or for a father to get rid of a difficult daughter, but the consequences for the woman in question are enormous. She can't return to the Netherlands, which is where all her belongings are, and there's nowhere she can turn to for help in Morocco." [Extradition?]