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Group seeks minimum age for Saudi marriages

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CHILD BRIDES: The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is set to recommend to Saudi authorities a ban on marriages of underaged girls.
CHILD BRIDES: The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is set to recommend to Saudi authorities a ban on marriages of underaged girls.

The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is set to recommend to Saudi authorities a ban on marriages of underaged girls.

The organisation is seeking to establish a minimum age of 15 years for girls to be married in the kingdom, the Saudi Gazette reported on Thursday.

Dr Saleh al-Khathlan, deputy chairman of the NSHR, told the paper the move was based on several court rulings on cases of underage girls married to men tens of years older than them.

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In the past two months, there have been 10 cases of underage marriages in Hail, Jizan, Asir, Taif and Unaiza, he said.

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