Judges Rule Against Kidnapped 14-Year-Old Christian Girl: 'Unable to Treat Christians as Pakistani Citizens'
Posted on AllSides February 10th, 2020
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A Pakistan high court has handed down a ruling based on Islamic "sharia" law that says men in Pakistan can marry underage girls as long as they have had their first menstrual cycle.
International Christian Concern (ICC), a Christian persecution watchdog group, reports the ruling handed down by a two-judge panel is in direct opposition to the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act which forbids marriage below the age of 18.
The ruling came during the latest court hearing into the kidnapping, forced conversion and marriage of Huma Younus, a...
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