Courts in Saudi Arabia rely on the testimony of male guardians to identify any females in court. This has certain rather obvious advantages for men facing bothersome charges from their wives:
The Ministry of Justice has uncovered 10 cases of women impersonating other women in various courts last year, local daily Al-Watan reported Sunday quoting informed sources.
Sources said most of the cases in which women impersonated other women were related to family matters.
They noted that some men may ask other women to impersonate their wives or other family female members to withdraw certain cases against them in courts and said the majority of these cases are related to divorce, khula, alimony, inheritance and others.
Sources said a number of general courts in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam and Makkah discovered that many cases raised by women against their husbands were withdrawn without their knowledge.
Khaled Saeed Al-Shahrani, lawyer, said some men used other women to impersonate their wives to sell real estate units or close a case of inheritance.
He said a man had asked one of his female relatives to impersonate his wife to withdraw the divorce case filed against him before the court sessions had started.
A system for identification through fingerprints has, apparently, been delayed.
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