Marriage registrar gets two-year suspended sentence for under-age unions
CAIRO: The Zefta Misdemeanor Court in Gharbeya sentenced 45-year-old Muslim marriage registrar (ma’zoun), to a two-year suspended jail sentence and a LE 1,000 fine for conducting the marriage of 114 girls under the legal age of 18. Commenting on the landslide verdict, which is the first of its kind, human rights advocate Gamal Eid, head …