A man has reportedly been banned from leaving Israel for nearly 8,000 years under a bizarre divorce law.?
Noam Huppert, 44, has been barred from leaving the country until December 31, 9999, or until he pays more than $3 million in future child support payments.?
The courthad?issued a "stay-of-exit" to Huppert back in 2013, meaning the Australian has effectively been slapped with an 8,000-year prison sentence, news.com.au reported.?
He moved to Israel in 2012 to stay?closer to his two young children after his?ex-wife?returned to the country the previous year.
A year later, the court issued the order which?has now left him stranded?in the country.?
The local law has been dubbed "draconian and excessive" by human rights groups. "I am locked since 2013," Huppert told news.com.au.?
He claimed he is one of many foreign nationals who have been ¡°persecuted by the Israeli ¡®justice¡¯ system only because they were?married to Israeli women¡±.
¡°I am one of them,¡± he said.
In Israel, the divorce law?means women can slap a travel ban on the father of their children to make sure they will receive child support payments, according to Sorin Luca, the director of the documentary?No Exit Order.??
Men are expected to pay 100 percent or more of their income to pay for their kids ¨C and they face prison?for up to 21 days every time they are unable to come up with the monthly payments, as per New York Post.?
British journalist Marianne Azizi, who has been campaigning to raise awareness about the issue, said that it was "almost impossible to ascertain" the exact number of men affected by the law.??
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