A Yemeni court has annulled an eight-year-old girl's marriage to a man in his 20s, after she filed for divorce. The girl, Nojoud Mohammed Ali, took a taxi to a judge’s office on her own, after running away from her husband.The father apparently felt he just had to go with the Yemeni flow here... again.
Her former husband, Faez Ali Thameur, told the court the marriage was consummated, but he denied Nojoud's claims that he beat her.
Her father, Mohammad Ali Al-Ahdal told the court he felt obliged to marry off his daughter after receiving repeated threats from the would-be husband and his entourage.His "entourage?"
He said was frightened because his oldest daughter had been kidnapped several years earlier and had been forced to marry her abductor.
This guy is some sort of Yemeni Puff-Daddy? Do they "roll?"
What's up with that?
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