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Provocative SM page to combat marriage of minors
26-10-2018
In a special feature today, Al Akhbar highlighted a campaign that has gone viral two days ago on social media and which allegedly sells young girls for men who prefer child brides, but which stresses that it is only an attempt to raise awareness on child marriage! The party behind it, which is still anonymous, believes it is an innovative and novel idea, Al Akhbar wrote. “I have Lebanese girls, Syrians are sold out”, the owner of the number enlisted on the Facebook page answers one of the callers, and addes, “We will visit the Sheikh together to check it out, need to know what age you are looking for,” Al Akhbar wrote. The website posts the photos of two young girls, each accompanied with a brief profile. The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering did not wish to comment on the awareness intention behind said campaign, while ABAAD organization voiced its reservation despite “the many violations of the principles of child protection employed in the campaign”, it said. On the subject, the Cybercrime Bureau told Al Akhbar, but did not elaborate, that it is currently monitoring the page, not aware that the page has been closed on Wednesday, after receiving a large number of complaints by viewers who were provoked by the ideas it imparts on trafficking in underage girls. In conclusion, Al Akhbar described the campaign as a stupid, irresponsible attempt to combat trafficking of child girls, wondering about the legal explanation of posting the images of two young girls on its FB account. (Al Akhbar, October 26, 2018)
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