Iran: Child marriage promoted by state TV serial 4/3/2018 9:03:15 PM 1,200 girl children under 14 years of age had turned widows in 2015 and that there were 2,000 child widows between 9 and 12 years old. NCRI  WOMEN COMMITTEE, 03 April 2018 -- An Iranian state TV serial broadcast during   Nowruz  holidays has been widely criticized by children’s rights activists in Iran for promoting child marriage of underaged girls. The serial called, “Payetakht” (capital), is a comedy making fun of the marriage of two teenage girls, 12 or 13 years old, and has created great concern among children’s rights advocates. According to children’s rights advocates, the Iranian regime TV serial which makes fun of early marriage has already violated many children’s rights in the form of teasing and dialogues between the characters and the producers must be held accountable for them. The bill proposing increasing the age of marriage for girls has be...