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Saudi Arabia, 25.8. 2008Silvie BurjankováA mother asked the court in Saudi Arabia to divorce her 8-year old daughter. Her husband wedded her without wife´s knowledge to a 50-year old man. The case will be solved at the court in province of Kasim, where the wedding contract had been signed. 8-year old wife has not known about her marriage so far. The act of her father had angered some of the girl´s relatives, who turned to Saudi Arabian human rights organization for assistance to nullify the wedding contract. The man defends himself arguing he had not break any law. Child marriages in conservative Muslim countries of Arabic peninsula are not an exception. Saudi Arabia is an illiberal monarchy, where majority of citizens normally practise the puritan version of Islam as well as polygamy. |