The controversy over the marriage age in Yemen is back again after Parliament approved last month amendment to the personal affairs laws fixing the age at 17 years.
After the move, the law was back in the council under pressure from clerics and tribal sheikhs urging the government to deal with this sensitive issue accurately and seriously in a way that never disagrees with Islam.
On Sunday, hundreds of Yemeni women marched along the street leading to the headquarters of Parliament in protest at the law of fixing marriage age.
They presented cartoons containing the signatures of a million Yemeni children and clerics against fixing the marriage age at 17 years.
Most of them are against fixing the marriage age and want no limits to it. We got married when 13 years and had children without any troubles or damages, some marchers claimed.
Others said that those who say that early marriage is a crime, they contradict with Islam and should accuse Islam.
On the clerics' opinion, the Yemeni clerics issued a fatwa banning to legalize the marriage age. Any attempts to do so are deemed opposing the Islamic teachings and the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad, the Fatwa said.