Bethany Vierra, 32, fled Saudi Arabia in December, taking Zaina, five, with her. Vierra, who arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2011 to teach, has invoked a rarely-enforced article in U.S. custody law to argue that Saudi custody law and Saudi courts do not protect fundamental human rights. Vierra converted to Islam while living in Saudi Arabia, but a judge ruled she was 'too new'In July last year a judge in Saudi Arabia ruled that Vierra was unfit to raise Zaina. His lawyers used her trip to Burning Man in their argument, dubbing it 'the world's strangest festival'. In Saudi Arabia, a woman's testimony is treated as only worth half of that of a man's.

Source: Daily Mail June 18, 2020 05:48 UTC