Judge Refuses 8-Year-Old's Divorce

Chilling

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 3:18PM EDT / Published Apr. 16, 2009 6:40AM EDT

Amidst Afghanistan’s efforts to legalize marital rape, another disturbing report on women’s rights from the Middle East: A Saudi judge has refused for the second time to annul the marriage of an 8-year-old girl who was wed to her father’s 47-year-old friend in order to settle a debt between the two men (who are “close friends”). The girl’s mother had petitioned for the divorce, but the judge, Sheikh Habib Al-Habib, “insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty.”

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Judge Refuses 8-Year-Old's Divorce