Thursday, April 30, 2009

50-year-old Saudi divorces 8-year-old wife...

An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday.

Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights.

The girl was allowed to divorce the 50-year-old man who she married in August after an out-of-court settlement had been reached in the case, said her lawyer, Abdulla al-Jeteli. The exact date of the divorce was not immediately known. More...

See also:

  1. Saudi court refuses to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man...
  2. The 11-year-old Indian girl who said "No" to marriage...
  3. Yemen's 10-year-old divorcée Nojoud Ali has written a book...

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