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598:""Early marriage fears of Nada Al-Ahdal are fabricated. The Yemeni government took it to court to abolish child marriages but failed to due so due to some men who refused to have it abolished and said "I dont see why this is such a big matter, Muhammad married a 9 year old girl" Says the Yemeni couGO"
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Al-Ahdal's sister had recently been married off at age 14, with al-Ahdal soon to be engaged at 12 to be married in the "near future". In the video, al-Ahdal started off by saying "It's true that I ran away from my family. I can't live with them anymore. Enough. I want to go live with my uncle. What
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about the innocence of childhood? What have the children done wrong? Why do you marry them off like that?" She continued, saying that she would rather die than be married off, citing lost educational opportunities,
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among young brides and early death. She also talked about her aunt who was married off at age 14, who endured abuse by her much older husband before finally dousing herself in gasoline and setting herself on fire.
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video decrying child marriage and her being forced into marriage contracts, which quickly went viral and prompted coverage of Yemen's continued practice of child marriage.
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user Syd_G shared al-Ahdal's YouTube video on the site, prompting even more social media sharing. The video received over seven million views in three days.
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Al-Ahdal ran away from home to escape the marriage and was quickly taken in by her uncle, a montage and graphics technician at a TV station.
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