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The Thai Islamic Council issued an order prohibiting the marriage of children under the age of 17 as a result of this year's controversy due to the union of an 11-year-old girl with a man almost four times older.
This order came into effect after being announced in all the country's mosques during Friday prayers (13), according to a council member, Wisut Binaleth, revealed on the portal "Benar News".
The new rule, which increases the minimum age of marriage by two years, stipulates that mosques can not celebrate a marriage before the age of 17 without the written authorization and communicated by an Islamic court. the provincial Islamic committee or the police.
The Thai civil code, a Buddhist majority country, is already recognized as a legal marriage from the age of 17 with the consent of the father or from the age of 15 with a judicial authorization.
However, this legislation does not apply to four provinces of the Malay-Muslim majority in the far south of the country where the Islamic courts outweigh the civil code in matters of family and religion. of succession, making the marriage of minors a common practice. d & # 39; habit.
Malaysia also announced reforms last month to toughen the criteria for allowing child marriages. In the country, there is no legal minimum age for unions with the consent of an Islamic court.
The announcement of the Malaysian government comes after the controversy sparked in July, when it was reported that a 41-year-old man, married to two women from the north of the country, had married an 11-year-old daughter of 39, a province in the south of the country. Thailand.
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