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Legal in Saudi Arabia - Girl, 15, escapes wedding night after marriage to man, 90 - groom demands return of dowry

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  • Legal in Saudi Arabia - Girl, 15, escapes wedding night after marriage to man, 90 - groom demands return of dowry

    There is no minimum age to marry in Saudi Arabia and men can "marry" many women.

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    Severe condemnation and opposition reactions from citizens and jurists on the site "Twitter"
    01/06/2013

    Tsaina Saudi marries 15-year-old girl in Jazan

    Married Saudi in the 90-year-old in the province of plowing in Jazan old girl 15 years last week, the news that provoked public opinion, besides human rights, provoked the story of many among the community on the social networking site "Twitter." where many specialists in the field meeting and self-launching tweets, deploring what issued from the people of the girl and reported remarks groom. In an interview with the groom Altsaina stressed health marrying the girl, and that he paid 65 thousand riyals dowry for marriage of a child, a mother Saudi father Yemen. added that bride entered to her room for the wedding night, and closed the door itself, which made ​​him feel that the matter conspiracy hatched against him by the bride and her mother. and pointed out that it will go tomorrow, "Monday" to maintain plowing or the court to ask the bride's family restitution his wife to him or recover the value of the dowry. said close to the family of the child that the bride Terrified wedding night, which paid to Mgavlh her ​​husband and closed the door on the same two days, then returned to the home of her parents. demanded Member National Society for Human Rights Suhaila Zainal Abidin specialized authorities to intervene rapidly to rescue the baby from the disaster that befell them , she said. indicated Zine El Abidine that one of the conditions of marriage does not exist, which is evidenced by the closure of the door itself, and this indicates a lack of consent to marriage.

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