'Pity it's untrue': Dad sues over 60 Minutes claims he forced teen into marriage

By Harriet Alexander
Updated November 21 2017 - 8:38pm, first published 8:33pm
'Pity it's untrue': Dad sues over 60 Minutes claims he forced teen into marriage
'Pity it's untrue': Dad sues over 60 Minutes claims he forced teen into marriage
Pamela Tabbaa leaves the Supreme Court in Sydney, Tuesday, November 21, 2017. Mouhammad Tabbaa and his estranged wife, Pamela June Tabbaa, are suing the Nine Network over a 2014 program in which their daughter Nadia, now 29, went by the pseudonym Rania Farrah in an interview with reporter Liz Hayes and said she was kidnapped as a child, taken to Syria and forced to marry her older cousin. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) NO ARCHIVING
Pamela Tabbaa leaves the Supreme Court in Sydney, Tuesday, November 21, 2017. Mouhammad Tabbaa and his estranged wife, Pamela June Tabbaa, are suing the Nine Network over a 2014 program in which their daughter Nadia, now 29, went by the pseudonym Rania Farrah in an interview with reporter Liz Hayes and said she was kidnapped as a child, taken to Syria and forced to marry her older cousin. (AAP Image/Peter Rae) NO ARCHIVING

A man accused of forcing his daughter into an arranged marriage with a cousin 15 years her senior in Syria is suing Channel Nine for defamation, with his barrister claiming the events described on 60 Minutes were "pure fiction".

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