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Rebecca Jones' appeal to secure more frequent visitation rights to her son Adam, telephone contact with him and the opportunity to allow her to take the 10-year-old out has been put on hold for another week.
The 43-year-old British-expat mum is more determined than ever to win a custody battle with her late ex-husband's family and eventually return to their family home in Bahrain.
The St Christopher's School pupil was taken during a visit to Qatar after Rebecca signed documents in Arabic she thought had something to do with matters concerning the child's inheritance.
Rebecca said after Sunday's latest visitation appeal hearing: "This is an unbelievable situation where Adam is being kept like a prisoner with nothing constructive to do and not being allowed to step out of the house he is being held in."
She said that during the court hearing Adam's uncle Fahad Al Madhaiki tried to convince the court that if it permitted Rebecca to take her son out of his family's home the 'American' army would help her to whisk him out of the country.
"In my opinion Adam's welfare is not being taken into consideration at all and it seems that he has no rights whatsoever," she added. "They are letting him suffer."
Earlier, Rebecca's appeal for a custody hearing to be held was also postponed after the Qatari judge told a courtroom that he could not continue with the case because of his personal relationship with the child's uncle.
The custody appeal will now also be heard next week in a court in Qatar before a new judge. Rebecca's lawyers have requested the court allow Adam to appear.
"This appears to have become a situation of a foreigner fighting them on their own turf and they are doing all they can to discourage me. But I want my son back," said Rebecca. "In my opinion all this is being done for money that came to Adam after his father's sudden death due to a motorbike accident. I'm hoping that the custody appeal hearing on Sunday will move things out of stalemate but I'm not too positive."
Rebecca has remained in Qatar to fight for her son's return because she fears she may not be allowed back if she were to leave the country.
Her husband Barrie is looking after their daughter Alex, four, in Bahrain with the help of her mother who has flown over from her home in Australia.
The court cases have soaked up all their savings and friends have been helping them survive during the ordeal.
Meanwhile, a Facebook group set up on the social networking website urging the authorities to 'return Adam to his family in Bahrain' has amassed nearly 10,000 supporters.
A GulfWeekly P1 petition has already been handed in to 10 Downing Street by Editor Stan Szecowka urging the British Government to support Rebecca and a documentary by KSDi's former award-winning Hollywood director Rick Beeman is in circulation to highlight the family's suffering and take it to a wider audience.
