Girl 17 refuses to
marry a man of her grandfather's age
A court in Saudi Arabia
has ruled in favor of a 17-year-old Saudi girl who refused to marry a man in
his 90s. The girl filed the law suit to abort her marriage contract after she
discovered that the man who was about to be her husband was not the man her
father had shown her.
The girl said that her
father told her that a handsome young man in his 20s wanted to marry her. He
later brought the young man home and the girl said that she accepted the
marriage proposal.
However, when the marriage contract was drawn up later,
she discovered that the groom’s birthdate showed that he was in his 90s, local
news site Sabq reported on 12/11/2014 Wednesday.
The case eventually went to a court which ruled that her
marriage should be declared 'null and void', it was reported by local news site
Sabq, according to Gulfnews.com.
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