“A week to save her” .. New developments in the case of the marriage of the Iraqi girl Isra
The repercussions of the case of the tragedy of the Iraqi girl Israa, whose husband is her rapist, continue, and her mother and civil society activists seek to prevent the legalization of marriage, and to hold the girl's father accountable.
Under pressure and the child's tragedy turning into a public opinion issue throughout the Arab world, the Al-Kadhimiya Court in Baghdad postponed the ratification of the marriage contract of the girl who was unwillingly married, according to her mother.
Iraqi media reported that activists, a large number of women, a crowd of lawyers, and women's rights defenders gathered in front of the Judiciary House in Kadhimiya, to prevent the marriage of this girl from being certified. In Baghdad, after his separation from his first wife, he married his 12-year-old daughter on October 20 to the brother of his new wife.
The Rudaw media network quoted the head of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, Nar Muhammad, as saying that this case of the girl is "one of hundreds of cases that occur in Iraq, which is that a person rapes a girl and then marries her," noting that "marriage is through a contract. legitimate, there is no accountability.”
The judge in the courthouse in Kadhimiya had refused, after waiting for two hours, to ratify the marriage contract, “which raised the happiness of the girl’s mother and the activists, but the file was not yet closed once and for all,” because the girl’s father who completed the transaction with the cleric is still insisting on the marriage.
The girl's mother told a number of media outlets that "the procedure for ratifying the contract was suspended for about a week until it was proven to the judge that there was a rape and other lawsuits, and that we find the girl," stressing that her young daughter was "raped inside her father's house with the knowledge of his new wife, and in his room."
The Iraqi Penal Code punishes "six months imprisonment and a fine of between 200,000 and 1 million dinars for the marriage of any girl under the age of 15 outside the courts."
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