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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai got married
Child rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai attends the World Economic Forum. (Archive image) Photo: Markus Schreiber / AP / dpa
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Malala Yousafzai married her partner. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate writes about her “precious day” on Twitter and shares pictures of the ceremony.
The Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai got married. The 24-year-old announced this on Tuesday evening via Twitter. «Today is a precious day in my life. Asser and I have agreed to be partners in life, »she wrote.
The couple held a small traditional Islamic wedding ceremony with their family at home in Birmingham, England, Yousafzai said. She was shown in photos with her groom and other people.
Malala Yousafzai was the youngest ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for her commitment to the right of all children to education. She survived an attack in October 2012 after Taliban fighters stopped her school bus in northern Pakistan. She had previously campaigned for girls to attend school. Today she lives in the UK.