In 2008, a 10-year-old Nujood Ali shocked the world when she went to a court in Sanaa and asked a judge for a divorce.
Nujood Ali was ten when her parents
arranged a marriage to Faez Ali
Thamer, a man in his thirties.
Regularly beaten by her in-laws and
raped by her husband, Ali escaped on
April 2, 2008, two months after the
wedding. On the advice of her father's
second wife, she went directly to court
to seek a divorce. After waiting for half
a day, she was noticed by a judge,
Mohammed al-għadha, who took it
upon himself to give her temporary
refuge, and who had both her father
and husband taken into custody.
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