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KUALA LUMPUR: Reports of marriage between a 11-year old girl and a man 30 years her senior sparked an uproar in Malaysia on Saturday, reigniting debate on the subject of underage marriage in the Muslim majority country.
The Malaysian government confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday, but added there were no records in the courts or the regional religious office that permitted this marriage.
If there was no written permission from the sharia court then the marriage would be unlawful, it said.
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41-årig malaysisk mand gifter sig med 11-årig pige
Ægteskabet mellem en 41-årig muslimsk malaysisk mand og en 11-årig thailandsk pige har skabt stor debat.
Malaysiske muslimer må, hvis de får tilladelse af en religiøs domstol, gifte sig med piger under 16. Desuden må mændene have op til fire koner, skriver The Guardian.
Og det har en malaysisk muslimsk mand benyttet sig af. Han har ifølge The Guardian allerede to koner, men ville altså have en tredje - nemlig den unge pige.
»Vores betjente har besøgt pigens hjem og mødt hendes mor. Vi venter på flere meldinger, før vi beslutter os for de næste skridt,« siger viceminister Wan Ismail ifølge The Guardian til Sunday Star.
Noget tyder dog på, at manden ikke har fået tilladelse til at gifte sig med pigen. Hvis det er tilfældet, kan han se frem til seks måneders fængsel.
Malaysiske aktivister kræver en lovændring, så børneægteskaber ikke længere kan ske.
Det vurderes, at omkring 16.000 malaysiske piger under 15 er gift. »At gifte sig med en 11-årig er en opførsel, som forbindes med en pædofil,« siger Syed Azmi Alhabshi, som er en aktivist for børns rettigheder.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The 11-year-old Thai girl who married a 41-year-old Malaysian man has been sent back to Thailand and she is now in Narathiwat, according to a Thai source.
The source, who is a social activist, said the Kelantan state government sent her back on Wednesday and the Thai authorities received her and she is now under the care of the Social Development and Human Security Ministry.
“The ministry is supposed to protect the girl and rehabilitate her. It’s right for the Thai government to take the girl back but they have to have a long-term plan. The girl’s family is poor and no one would care for them,” he said.
While the ministry would shelter her, he said that there was concern that religious bodies might threaten the ministry to let her remain with the man.
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