Investigators say the victim’s family “tricked” her into traveling from New York to Yemen in an attempt to force her into an arranged marriage. The Abughanems also “discussed killing her ...

but instead would be staying in Yemen to marry, even though she already had a fiancé. She testified that when she told her father she would rather die than enter an arranged marriage, her father ...

UNICEF says marriage under the age of 18 is a violation of human rights. But the practice is not unusual in Yemen where girls as young as 10 are given away, with their fathers often choosing the ...

Testifying at his criminal trial, a Lackawanna father Tuesday rejected his daughter’s accusations that he beat her for resisting an arranged marriage in Yemen and telling her that her only other ...

A Lackawanna father and son were convicted by a federal jury of a kidnapping conspiracy after they allegedly confined their female relative in Yemen for over a year to force her into marriage, the ...