(MENAFN) Fatima al-Khulaidi got married to her husband at the age of 15 while she was living in Yemen.
"I thought he would be my other half, would support and love me," said Fatima, now 21. "Little did I know what was in store for me.
"Getting married wasn't a problem, until I realised how much money he was taking from my family." Fatima said that she was "naive" and didn't think much about it at first.
"Then he started to hit me and I needed a way out, but my father refused to let me get divorced because of the shame it would bring."
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