{"id":291699,"date":"2010-02-07T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21603"},"modified":"2010-02-07T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:18:20","slug":"saudi-child-bride-drops-fight-to-divorce-80-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/291699","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Child Bride Drops Fight to Divorce 80-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hCenPxeNLd4wTsD_u7IpE9D-ZaGA\">AFP via Google News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>RIYADH \u2014 <\/strong>A 12-year-old Saudi girl unexpectedly gave up her petition for divorce from an 80-year-old man her father forced her to marry in exchange for a dowry, Saudi media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite support from human rights lawyers and child welfare advocates, the girl and her mother, who originally sought the divorce, withdrew the case Monday in a court in Buraidah, in Al-Qasim province, newspapers said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl told the court that her marriage to the man was done with her agreement, according to Okaz newspaper. &#8220;I agree to the marriage. I have no objection. This is in filial respect to my father and obedience to his wish,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh al-Dabibi, a lawyer supplied by a charity group to help the girl, said her mother did not inform&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via AFP via Google News: RIYADH \u2014 A 12-year-old Saudi girl unexpectedly gave up her petition for divorce from an 80-year-old man her father forced her to marry in exchange for a dowry, Saudi media reported Tuesday. Despite support from human rights lawyers and child welfare advocates, the girl and her mother, who originally sought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}