In Saudi Arabia, there is no minimum age for marriage

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In 2008, a Saudi Arabia court refused to grant divorce to an 8 year old from her 58 year old husband. Saudi Arabia’s religious leader, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Asheikh, has said that he does not plan to restrict the minimum age for marriage for women to 15 years, contravening a recent proposal from the country’s Ministry of Justice. 

The issue is a controversial one both inside and outside Saudi Arabia, where the Ministry of Justice two years ago submitted a proposal to limit the marriage age of women to 15 years old. In 2011, the kingdom’s Shoura Council was also reported to recommend the introduction of an age limit, but nothing concrete has been heard since.

The report quoted a source in the Ministry of Justice, which said that its new proposal planned to transfer the power to marry under-age girls from a marriage official to a Sharia court judge, and that marriages could only be approved with the consent of both the girl and the girl’s mother.

In addition, any request to marry a girl below the age of 15 would need to be accompanied by a medical report from a specialist committee, which would include a female gynaecologist and obstetrician, as well as a female psychiatrist and sociologist.

Then again, Saudi Arabia is one of the leaders in the world on women oppression. Courts outlawed “tempting eyes” and sentenced a woman to 50 lashes when she cursed at the religious police. Women are not allowed to attend a doctor appointment without a male guardian. Saudi women protested against the law that forbids them from driving, but Sheikh Saleh Al-Loheidan added more international outrage when he said driving harms a woman’s ovaries.

The Justice Ministry first said they would attempt to stop underage marriages when a court told an eight-year-old girl she must stay married to a man 50 years older than her. But underage marriage grabbed international attention when 12-year-old Fatima escaped from her marriage home and demanded a divorce. Her father sold her to 50-year-old man “who already had a wife and ten children.”