Headline of the Day: 8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband

April 30, 2009 11:13 PM | No Comments

Via AP/Yahoo! News:

CAIRO – 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.

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