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Sold by zana muhsen5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The subsequent story was front-page news, and as a result of the ensuing publicity, Zana was allowed to leave by the authorities, on condition she left her son behind as they would not issue him with a passport. ![]() In 1987, after a British-based campaign by the girls' mother, Miriam, the Observer sent a reporter and a photographer to the Yemen to find the sisters. ![]() For eight years, the sisters lived as peasants' wives in a remote mountain village, where a medieval way of life still existed and where there was virtually no contact with the developed world. It was only when they arrived in the Yemen that they discovered their father had sold each of them into marriage to 13-year-old boys, for $2,500 apiece. The young teenagers couldn't wait to start the holiday. The stories he told them of the Yemen's sunshine, camel-riding, palm-fringed beaches, and sand dunes must have made surreal contrasts to the simple life they were living above a fish and chip shop in working-class Birmingham. It was summer, and the girls' father, Yemen-born Muthan Muhsen, promised them a six-week holiday with their Yemeni relatives. British-born Zana Muhsen was 15, and her sister Nadia was 14. ![]()
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