The Saudi ambassador meets the child "Nada Al-Ahdal" in Riyadh

2018/09/29 – 09:20 am (Agencies)

The ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to Yemen and supervisor of the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen, Mohammed bin Saeed Al Jaber, met the young Yemeni social activist Nada Al-Ahdal at the programme’s headquarters in Riyadh.

Nada Al-Ahdal is an icon for Yemenis in defending underage girls and opposing their marriage at an early age. She defends her cause fiercely, which has led the Yemeni and foreign media to take an interest in her case, seeing it as a real-life embodiment of the problem of child marriage in Yemen.

Nada, now 15, had previously appeared in videos on social media explaining her case, saying that she came under pressure from her family to marry when she was 11 years old, and confirming that she fled her family to avoid an imminent forced marriage, which caused a great media stir.