{"id":885,"date":"2015-06-13T18:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2015-06-13T18:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T18:34:25","slug":"child-accused-of-killing-husband-to-be-freed-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/child-accused-of-killing-husband-to-be-freed-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Child accused of killing husband to be freed in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1434220262004_1120\">LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is set to be freed in Nigeria, lawyers and a judge said Wednesday, amid fears for her safety and future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-slot-mod\">\u00a0Human rights lawyer Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim said she convinced the prosecutor to drop the case and on Tuesday a High Court judge in Gezawa ordered Wasila Tasi&#8217;u to be released from juvenile detention.<\/div>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1434220262004_1146\">She can count herself lucky. Another 13-year-old who killed her 35-year-old husband remains on death row despite a ruling, exactly one year ago from the West African Community Court of Justice, that her sentence is illegal because she was a minor.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1434220262004_1148\">Forced marriage and child marriage are also against the law here, but widely practiced.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1434220262004_1150\">Both girls had become second wives in the Muslim northern part of Nigeria where polygamy and child marriage is common. Neither had ever been to school and couldn&#8217;t read or write.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/child-accused-killing-husband-freed-nigeria-100125801.html\">\u00a0http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/child-accused-killing-husband-freed-nigeria-100125801.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) \u2014 A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is set to be freed in Nigeria, lawyers and a judge said Wednesday, amid fears for her safety and future. \u00a0Human rights lawyer Hussaina Aliyu Ibrahim said she convinced the prosecutor to drop the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[97,7,4,268,204],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-child-marriage","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-human-rights","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}