Eight-year old girl goes to Yemeni court to get a divorce
She was married off to a thirty year old man and abused almost daily for two months. And yet, in a country that affords women almost no rights, Nojoud Muhammed Nasser found the courage to head to a court in Yemen by herself in order to win a divorce from Faez Ali Thamer.
“My father beat me and told me that I must marry this man, and if I did not, I would be raped and no law and no sheikh in this country would help me. I refused but I couldn’t stop the marriage,” Nojoud Nasser told the Yemen Times. “I asked and begged my mother, father, and aunt to help me to get divorced. They answered, ‘We can do nothing. If you want you can go to court by yourself.’ So this is what I have done,” she said.
Raw. Courage.
May God protect and watch over this young child in her quest for justice.
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