European Court of Human Rights dismisses mother's challenge to French court's decision to send her child back to Japan. Marine Verhoeven, French born in 1988, married a Japanese man in 2007 in France and then went to live with him in Japan.
The couple had a child, Louis, in 2015. Two years later, in July 2017, she returned to France with her son to spend the summer holidays. But a month before the return flight, she warned her husband that she would not return to Japan and wanted a divorce.