Yemen: Ban on Child Brides Is Imperiled
— AP reports: “Some of Yemen’s most influential Muslim leaders have declared supporters of a ban on child brides to be apostates”
Yemen: “Women oppose child marriage ban”
— Straits Times reports: “The protesters held up banners proclaiming ‘don’t ban what Allah made permissible,’ or ‘stop violating Islamic sharia law in the name of rights and freedoms,’ an AFP correspondent said. Answering calls by Muslim clerics who oppose the proposal on grounds it goes against Islamic sharia law, the protesters arrived in organized buses.”