Nada tells Al Arabiya Net that her uncle Abdel Alahdal is her biggest supporter
Originally published by Al Arabiya Net on 8 March 2018.
In March 2018, speaking from Saudi Arabia, Nada Al-Ahdal named for Al Arabiya Net the person who has sustained her campaign against child marriage: her uncle, Abdel Alahdal, whom she called her biggest supporter (Al Arabiya Net, 8 March 2018 · archived copy).
It was he, she said, who taught her to use Facebook, so that she could stay in touch with him while he was out of the country; when she was being forced to marry, he was away travelling (Al Arabiya Net, 8 March 2018 · archived copy).
She also described what the years since had cost: the Houthis placed her under house arrest to stop her travelling to sign her book in Switzerland, and in Aden she and her uncle were seized by members of Al-Qaeda and held for fourteen days (Al Arabiya Net, 8 March 2018 · archived copy).
