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Monday 11 August 2008 (08 Sha`ban 1429)
Child marriage case postponed
Arab News
ABHA: The Wadi Bin-Hasheel court has postponed the trial of a Saudi
father who married his 10-year-old daughter to a man in his 70s, as the bride
and bridegroom failed to appear in court, Al-Madinah newspaper reported
yesterday. The trial is now set for Sept. 10, as only the girl's father, her
divorced mother and her uncle attended the hearing. The judge ordered the
police to bring the girl and her husband to the next session. The newspaper
said the girl's uncle, who filed the case against the father, has refused all
offers of mediation to drop the case, and said he would continue until justice
was done. The father had earlier married two of his young daughters to elderly
men. A judge in the Grand Court of Riyadh divorced the first, who was 12, while
the second ran away with her mother to a women's shelter in Riyadh
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