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If a parent abducts a child to Israel can he or she claim in his defence that the country they were living in was not a democracy and failed to recognize basic human rights – to persuade the court not to order the minor’s return ?

By: דיאנה שאלתיאל•Published on: 30 May, 2022

Where the two countries involved are bound by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction the court where the plea is brought for a minor’s return does have discretion not to return him ‘ in the defence of human rights and basic freedoms’ .

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