When I was married at 13 I was told refusal would end in my death. Now girls in Iraq as young as nine face the same fate

Maybe this man, who would not allow me to go to university and wanted me to wear the abaya and niqab, would still be more merciful than my father? At the time, my scream was interpreted as shyness, as having crossed a “taboo”. According to how we were raised, a man was not supposed to touch his wif...

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