Sunday, April 12, 2009

Saudi judge refuses to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 47-year old man...

A Saudi Arabian judge has refused to overturn a ruling that declared the arranged marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 47-year-old man legal, a relative says.

The judge, Sheikh Habib Habib, ruled for the second time Saturday in Onaiza that the girl's marriage to a friend of her father's was legal and binding. He said the child wife could file for divorce once she reached puberty, CNN reported. More...

See also:

  1. Saudi clerics want women to be banned from TV and the media!!!
  2. 75-year-old woman in Saudi Arabia to get 40 lashes for "mingling..."
  3. Saudi court refuses to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man...
  4. She's only 10, but she's already been married, raped, beaten and divorced!!

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