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  • 2013-09-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Did an 8-Year-Old Yemeni Child Bride Die of Internal Injuries? (en)
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  • In September 2013, the Kuwaiti daily Al Watan (citing a local Yemeni newspaper called Al Mashhad) reported that an 8-year-old girl named Rawan had died of internal hemorrhaging related to vaginal tearing the night after she was married to a 40-year-old man in northwestern Yemen. That story was then picked up and spread internationally by English-language news media: Shortly afterwards, the Dubai-based Gulf News ran a story stating that Yemeni law enforcement officials had investigated the report and denied there was truth to it: The journalist who wrote the controversial story insisted that his story was correct and based on the accounts of the girl's neighbours, but the truth was being covered up by officials: (en)
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