UK girl, 14, to lose R9.2m inheritance for 'being Christian'
Paris Shahravesh, 14, was due to inherit the money from her banker father Pedro dos Santos, 51, after he suddenly died in the United Arab Emirates of a heart attack in March.
According to the form of sharia law used in the UAE non-Muslims cannot inherit the estate of a Muslim – and vice-versa. On a visit to attend Mr Santos’s funeral in April, the teenager’s mother, Laleh Shahravesh, was held in the UAE for almost a month after she was reported to the police for abusing Mrs Al Hammadi online and branding her a "horse" on Facebook.
"I am a Muslim and my daughter is a British Muslim." She added that Mrs Al Hammadi, who lived in Dubai with the HSBC banker, "made every effort to isolate Pedro from our daughter during his life and now she is trying to exclude her after his death. It is beyond sad".
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