Three Stories In Which No One Has It All

From Al Bawaba, reports that “that an eight-year-old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma.” Her husband was 40. Over a quarter of girls in Yemen are reported married before the age of 15; they are part of the 140 million girls this decade who, according to UNFPA, will be married off before age 18. Within that group, 50 million will become “brides” before 15.

And, news from Kazakhstan via EurasiaNet: a college student in Almaty is offering a spice-up-your-dating-life service in which he’ll carry out one of “15 attack scenarios” on your girlfriend, permitting you to swoop in and save the day. This sounds almost as funny as what happened last winter in Kyrgyzstan, when two newspaper writers kidnapped a network journalist at gunpoint and recorded her screaming as material for their column on tamashator, or “practical jokes.”

Lastly, at Clutch, the story of Amira Osman Hamed, a 35-year-old Sudanese woman who, on September 19, will go on trial for her refusal to cover her braids with a hijab. If convicted of violating Article 152 in the Memorandum to the 1991 Penal Code of Sudan (covering “obscene and indecent acts”), she’ll face up to 40 lashings.