"Human rights" in Saudi Arabia adopts a child divorcing Buraidah

Sponsored Saudi Human Rights Commission the issue of "child Buraida," the name the media is common for a girl her husband and her father Tmanini, and received follow-up story popular and extensive media during the past two weeks.

The lawyer said Sultan bin crowded that Saudi Human Rights Commission with the assistance cost of a 12-year-old girl to a divorce from her husband of 80 years of age in the hope that leads to the prohibition of child marriages.

A minimum age for marriage

Lawyer Ben crowded that the child is one of the province and the city of Buraidah near Riyadh married a cousin of her father, the elderly man who paid her a dowry of 85 thousand riyals (U.S. $ 22670) in late last year.

Saudi Arabia has no minimum age for marriage and parents and guardians of their daughters have the right to choose their husbands and the timing of marriage, and opponents see the marriage of underage girls that divorce might test paves the way to specify a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia.

The lawyer that the girl's mother stayed in earlier filed for divorce on behalf of her daughter, but withdrew the case without mentioning the reason after a second hearing in early this month.


Bill

And the Human Rights Commission took over the government's case and filed for divorce again on behalf of the girl child, "Ben-horn," I charged the Commission on Human Rights to consider the issue as a general right, the right-General did not drop the waiver of the mother's case. "

This is the first time intervened in the case of the particular child marriage in the Kingdom as it was seen as an issue in the former as a "family affair" and outside the scope of responsibility of the body, and Saudi Arabia signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child is one of those under the age of ten children.

Zuhair al-Harthy, Member of Shura Council in Saudi Arabia that the government committee studying the draft law banning the marriage of minors, but human rights defenders fear that the law is passed it takes time.

Muflih al-Qahtani, said the President of the National Assembly for Human Rights "law will take time, because it is a socially, religiously and culturally.


Warning of the authorized

Sheikh Al-Harthy that the fastest way to deal with the issue is to warn the government authorized a marriage, girls under the age of ten, a form of intervention at the administrative level is not legal.

The girl's lawyer said he expected to take the judge in the case his decision soon. "During the days we expect that a judge not to terminate our consent and the marriage or raise the issue of judges is higher than the degree of discrimination, the Court of Appeal" ..

And The issue of "child Buraidah" in the past few weeks, follow-up to popular and highly publicized, and many have called in the press articles and television programs from the need to put an end to this kind of marriage, which is often based on material interest, and violates human rights and child.