Saudi Arabia should have minimum age for marriage
So says the National Society for Human Rights, an independent human rights organisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The organisation is seeking to establish a minimum age of 15 years for girls to be married in the kingdom, the Saudi Gazette reported on Thursday.
Dr Saleh al-Khathlan, deputy chairman of the NSHR, told the paper the move was based on several court rulings on cases of underage girls married to men tens of years older than them.
Dr al-Khathlan says there have been ten such cases in the past two months.
At least two related news stories have been reported in the past few days:
A Saudi judge refused to grant an annulment to an 8-year-old girl married to a 58-year-old man. According to this news story, the girl does not yet know that she is married.
A doctor stopped, or at least delayed, the marriage of 5-year-old girl by refusing to conduct legally required pre-marital blood tests,
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