{"id":108737,"date":"2024-08-16T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=108737"},"modified":"2024-08-16T11:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:28:15","slug":"8-year-old-child-bride-dies-from-internal-bleeding-after-wedding-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=108737","title":{"rendered":"8 year old child bride dies from internal bleeding after wedding night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate about child brides.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GU-BPrqWMAArqns-572x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GU-BPrqWMAArqns-572x1024.jpeg 572w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GU-BPrqWMAArqns-167x300.jpeg 167w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/GU-BPrqWMAArqns.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Arwa Othman, head of Yemen House of Folklore and a leading rights campaigner, said the girl, identified only as Rawan, was married to a 40-year-old man late last week in the town of Meedi in Hajjah province in northwestern Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just so wrong and ask yourself this, do we want those who think about marriage this way coming into our own communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":108738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9900],"tags":[8514,9721],"class_list":["post-108737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-yemen","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108740,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108737\/revisions\/108740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}