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The judge then asks the bride if she agrees to the marriage through a series of traditional questions, repeating them three times before receiving her answer. The groom is then asked the same question only once. [4] [5] For Shias, the bride wears a white dress, and seven plates are placed in front of her with various spices arranged beautifully.
Even with the legal protections currently in place, child marriage remains prevalant in Iraq, with approximately 28% of girls marrying before the age of 18, according to a 2023 UNICEF report ...
The minimum age of marriage in Iran is 15 for men and 13 for women. [72] [73] Ways around these regulations include temporary marriages (Nikah mut'ah). [74] With the permission of a court, girls may marry at a younger age. In 2010, as many as 42,000 children aged between 10 and 14 were married, [75] and 716 girls younger than 10 had wed. [76]
Article 514 states that the person who abducts a female minor or a female adult with the intention of marrying her commits an offense [39] and can be imprisoned up to three years. [40] Article 515 states that the person who kidnaps a man or a woman with the purpose of debauchery [ 39 ] can be sentenced to hard labor for at least seven years. [ 40 ]
Iraq's parliament passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence on Saturday, in a move it said aimed to uphold religious values but was condemned by ...
A report released by the organization in 2022 accused armed groups in Iraq of abducting, raping, torturing, and killing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people with impunity and the Iraqi ...
A more distant relative acquires priority to marry a girl over her paternal male cousin by reserving her soon after her birth. [16] In Kuwait, 22.5-64.3% of marriages are consanguineous according to a 2009 study in the journal Reproductive Health. [17]
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a ...