Nada Al-Ahdal | This is the #Taiz we are proud of

This is the #Taiz we are proud of
Police in Taiz governorate stopped a wedding party for an eleven-year-old girl.
A security source said that the Al-Qahira police department received a report from citizens of a wedding party, in one of the district's neighbourhoods, for a girl named Waad Al-Ansi to an elderly man.
The source explained that the police chief of Al-Qahira district, Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Al-Qaisi, ordered a security team sent to the girl's home, the wedding stopped, and the father of the girl, who is in “fifth grade of primary school”, arrested. It emerged that her father had contracted her marriage in return for receiving a large sum from the husband (in his fifties).
Citizens in the city of Taiz praised the action of the Al-Qahira district police and the protection of the child “Waad” from the crime of forced marriage.
#CrimeAgainstHumanity_
Nada Al-Ahdal | Human rights activist campaigning against child marriage

