seems to be still a long way to go before the Yemeni girl, Nujood Ahdal , before they turn her dreams and reality to it.
After having gained fame after extracted the right of divorce from a
husband associated with him against her will in the eight-year-old, Nujood
finds itself again facing difficult circumstances with her father,
who put his hand on the money, and began planning to marry her baby
sister.
Between her dream of becoming a lawyer defending the oppressed, press
or pursue their rights, became Highlands - which has gained the title of
the world's smallest absolute after they received the dislocation at
the age of nine - in the heart of the new suffering, restore her father entered it.
The girl, who won the "Woman of the Year" in 2008 to become a symbol of
all Yemeni in addressing early marriage, spoke to Mendoah site in Sanaa, she suffers today from beating her father to her and
her sisters and her mother, after laying his hand on the full monthly
amount which was received from the proceeds of selling novel written
about Amabadtha caused by forcing them to marry.
Highlands lost money in the hands of her father
Nujood says, French publishing house that issued the novel
translated into 19 languages for their suffering, had been allocated a
$ thousand dollars per month, in addition to providing a two-story
house, securing education expenses.
But her father put his hand on the funds allocated to it, making it a material of living is very difficult.
She explains Nujood story, saying: "The father rented an apartment and
shop on the first floor of the house, and combines it rents and puts it
on his wives, and when I took Rent months to pay electricity and water
bills so as not to separate us, shouted Ali and almost hit me .. was
give me five thousand riyals ( about $ 25) then declined, and now my
mother and my brothers live in difficult circumstances, because he spent
on his wives, but I Voaich in my brother's house. "
She added: "I left home in search of safety from the screams and
beatings that usually renewed when visiting my parents for the house,
because he wants to output my mother and brothers of the house and
soothe his wives."
She noted that the proceeds of the book up to her father's account, and
spend it as he pleases, and said: "I have divorced one of his wives and
marry another last year, and is now spent on his second and third wife
.. But we have God."
Highlands: I no longer suffer only to my mother and my sister
And stresses the Highlands, which at the age of now 14 years, they are
no longer hurting itself but "feared for her mother," and the fate of
her sister small, Haifa, which at the age of now 13 years old, and wants
her father to marry the brother of his wife last, which rejects
Highlands .
Nujood says: "I support my sister not to marry, because I realized the
existence of a legal age for marriage, and I do not like that tormented
my sister like me."
And reveal Highlands, which preoccupied her story of millions around
the world, all over the threat, saying: "miss my father when his wives
for weeks and when it comes to home starts beating and problems, on one
occasion Okhava Boukngerh .. my sister Haifa was forced to flee and
resort to a uncles for two months, but returned home beyond because of
increasing problems with my father and beat him for my mother. "
And conditions left to the school says Nujood, depriving her father of
allocations for education, along with tense security situation during
the recent demonstrations, and particularly measles region near the
house, prevented the continuation of the study.
Also reported that it had received threats from a particular phone
number, and had been prosecuted on one occasion when she returned from
school, "which scared me in the absence of support me to achieve my
ambition to return to school," according to the Highlands.
But Nujood still sticking to achieve the dream of educational
attainment, she says: "I wish to travel out of Yemen, and go make me
strong testimony to my father and in front of everyone."
Nujood lacks efforts lawyer
In the absence of a lawyer Shaza Nasser, which helped the art of legal
battle and shared her award "Woman of the Year" "study abroad", did not
find the boys Yemeni choice but to human rights activist Abdel-Alim
Hamidi, who helped her to get ownership documents her home, as well as
to extract passport.
Says Hamidi, who attended the meeting between CNN Arabic and Highlands,
the latter facing many social problems, especially in light of the case
of "ignorance and intolerance", which controls the case and their
relationship with her family.
Nujood's father: boy and owned the right of the father
For his part, denied the father Nujood accusations by the daughter over
placing his hand on the money and use it to link to the wives are new,
and the attempt to coerce her younger sister for marriage.
Ali al-Ahdal for CNN Arabic: "I married my own money, I also borrowed
from the people, and did not stretch out my hand to my daughter's
money."
Ahdal reported that actually receive $ 900 out of thousand dollars
Publishing House had pledged a month, and denied that he had acquired
the full amount.
He said that amount is subject to the sharing, you get Nujood $ 500 of
it, and the return of apartment and rental shop on the ground floor of
the house back to them and to her mother.
Ahdal already acknowledged his desire to marry off his daughter Haifa,
Nujood's younger sister, stressing that it already received her dowry,
the amount of 500 thousand riyals (more than $ 2,300) from a man who
Bouktabtha, "and was the disbursement of the whole family," he said.
He said: "I have the consent of the girl Haifa, her mother and her big
brother Mohammad, a condition of this pony," he said, adding that if the
family refused Haifa marriage, they should re-dowry that Qdoh.
Ahdal said he still pays 25 thousand riyals (116 dollars) rent the great house of his son Mohammed.
He argued: "The boy and have a king to his father .. or are they want Mkasemta in my children?"
By Nujood is still a long
And it seems, is still a long way to go Nujood to overcome the
difficulties and achieve her dream, as it became clear that the access
to freedom of divorce of man Ivegaha was various types of physical and
psychological torment, what is the beginning of a journey of a thousand
miles.
