CNN films the family meeting over Nada, her uncle Abdel Alahdal among those in the room
Originally published by CNN on 30 July 2013 (updated 31 July).
Weeks after her video travelled the world, the argument over Nada Al-Ahdal’s future moved off the internet and into a room in Sana’a, and CNN’s cameras were there (CNN, 30 July 2013 (updated 31 July) · archived copy).
By then, the network reported, Yemen’s Interior Ministry, working with the child-protection organisation Seyaj, had taken the girl from the house of her uncle, Abdel Alahdal, and placed her in a women’s shelter. Until the quarrel was resolved, guardianship passed for the time being to Ramzia Al-Eryani, who heads the Yemen Women’s Union (CNN, 30 July 2013 (updated 31 July) · archived copy).
When parents, uncle and girl finally sat down in one room, only CNN’s crew was allowed to film. They left it, the network reported, with a compromise: all of them would live for a while under the roof of another relative in Sana’a (CNN, 30 July 2013 (updated 31 July) · archived copy).
