Posted by
Billy on Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:29:39 PM
An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday.
Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting
child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called
child marriage a "clear and unacceptable"
violation of human rights. (
8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband )
The girl was allowed to divorce the 50-year-old man who she married in August after an out-of-court settlement had been reached in the case, said her lawyer, Abdulla al-Jeteli. The exact date of the divorce was not immediately known.
(This shows how people and for sure girls are being treated badly in radical Islam. )