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Underaged girl's marriage triggers reform calls
Published:  Dec 6, 2010 7:12 PM
Updated: 12:02 PM

The marriage of a 14-year-old Muslim girl in a Malaysian mass wedding triggered calls Monday for reform, and restraint by religious courts empowered to approve underage unions.

Schoolgirl Siti Maryam Mahmod wed 23-year-old schoolteacher Abdul Manan Othman on Saturday in a celebration at a major mosque, after being given permission in a Sharia court.

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