“Women belong to men.” The story of a girl whose father “officially” sold her exposes the “dire” reality of girls in Yemen



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“# Help_Lemon”, a campaign launched by Yemeni human rights organizations and Twitter users, to demand the return of the Yemeni girl, Lemon, after her father “sold” her with a duly registered document, and they could already remove the girl of the “buyer”, to return her to her father, who turned out Joy to the mass.

In the details, a Yemeni account for the defense of women’s rights revealed that a “sale” was carried out on a government bail in the country against a young woman, and the account holders published a document from the which the sale was made.

The account read, “The sale of the child”, confirms that “slavery still exists in Yemen, and there is no change in this ugly reality”, adding that “the child Lemon was sold by the criminal, his father.”

The document carried an official seal, and the names of the witnesses who wrote down the agreement, which were written on a special paper from the Ministry of Justice, as it appears in the published photo.

According to the content of the document and what was circulated among users, the sale was made in August 2019 in Ibb governorate (central Yemen), which is under the control of the Houthis, so that the father (Yasser Eid Al- Salahi) could pay his debts to his ex-wife, and the sale was made in favor of Muhammad Hassan Ali Al-Fateki, in exchange for an amount of 200,000 Yemeni rials (about $ 350).

After the document was disseminated, the activists obtained a sum of money to pay the “buyer”, and returned the girl to her father, and this was documented with another written document, which aroused the discontent of some of them and the fear of resell it.

‘The buyer does not want to marry’

In this context, the human rights activist Ayman al-Hamiri explained, in an interview with Al-Hurra, that “Lemon’s father did not seek the help of charities or humanitarian organizations to pay his debts, but rather sold his daughter , who does not care about her, “and added that” in the Yemeni countryside, the female has no value because she does not bear the father’s last name, so he marries her at age ten or even sells her. “

He added that “Lemon is not the first there is and many others”, noting that “no marriage contract has been organized but an official sale, because the buyer does not want to make her his wife and the legal effects that are derived, but wants enslave her to do housework, according to the logic of the Middle Ages. “

He concluded by saying that “protecting the girl, Lemon, is taking her out of Yemen, and she is not the last to be sold, but she is the only one whose history we learn.”

“The man has the right to sell the woman and determine her destiny.”

For her part, the Yemeni activist Ahlam Jarban, living in France, considered that “what happened is considered a natural product of an ugly reality in which Yemeni women live”, considering that “the incident is not the first nor the last, since human trafficking is one of the most prominent vestiges of wars, ignorance and poverty ”.

In his interview with Al-Hurra, Jarban highlighted that “the lack of all their rights by Yemeni women, and documenting this sale with an official document illustrates the depth of the problem”, noting that “the incident of a father selling his daughter is not surprising. “

The feminist activist added that “incidents of father aggression against his daughters in Yemen are on the rise”, noting that “Yemeni society is male, as women are considered the property of men, and he has the right to buy and sell them. in the way he chooses, as well as who chooses his destiny, clothing and personal Marriage decisions that lead to divorce.

Condemnation and demands for international intervention

On Twitter, which paved the way for the recovery of the girl, Lemon, users expressed concern about the risk of the girl returning to her father, and the risk of being “sold” again. He demanded that the father and the buyer be held accountable until the death penalty was imposed. Others also called on international organizations, led by UNICEF, to intervene to protect the girl.



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