Moroccan Singer Dounia Batma Divorces Husband After His Conviction for Incitement

The court of first instance in Marrakech, which on Wednesday sentenced Mohamed Al Turk to three months in prison and a fine of 3000 Dirhams, following a complaint filed by Dounia Batma, is the same one that confirmed on Thursday, "the legal dissolution" of the singer’s marriage to her Bahraini husband. The custody of the children from this marriage has been entrusted to the Moroccan singer.

The divorce was pronounced without the possibility of appeal, since for months the court had been trying reconciliation attempts to allow them to save what they had built in ten years of marriage, but the two spouses were determined to break the bond that united them. The complaint filed by Dounia Batma accusing Al Turk of "defamation, insults and betrayal" made any reconciliation of the couple impossible. The complaint follows a video circulated on social media in which the ex-husband and manager could be seen in the company of a young woman.