Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 14
By Khalid Kazimov – Trend:
A group of Iranian parliamentarians are drafting a new bill restricting underage marriage in the Islamic Republic.
Fatemeh Zolqadr, MP for Tehran and a member of parliament’s cultural commission, has said that the new bill proposes revoking the existing two articles allowing marriages under the legal age in the Islamic Republic, Mehr news agency reported.
She added that the new bill will repeal the articles legalizing marriage of girls below 13 year-old and boys below 15 under parental consent and court permissions.
The current law has set the legal marriage age for girls at 13 and boys at 15, according to the Sharia.
She further noted that the MPs are in talks with prominent religious leaders to obtain their advices on the law change.
Iran's National Organization for Civil Registration earlier suggested that at least 17 percent of females who marry in Iran's capital city of Tehran are under 18 years of age.
About 419,488 girls under age of 15 and 484,885 boys under the age of 20 got married between 2004 and 2014 in Iran, the organization has said.
Iran MPs to push bill on child marriage through parliament
A group of Iranian parliamentarians are drafting a new bill restricting underage marriage in the Islamic Republic
