(…) Well about Muli’s and Mohammed story, from the beginning I had that feeling that they will suffer a lot and when Mohammed told me about his relationship with Muli, I gave him advices to end up the relationship and break up with her before her family knows, because it’s dangerous if they know and also that Mohammed is an Eritrean guy which isn’t acceptable for a Yemeni families and society, also that Yemeni people aren’t easy going about stuff like this. I told him to forget Muli and find a girl from Eritrea which has the same region like him and that both of them will get killed by Muli’s family. but unfortunately Mohammed insist that he will not leave her and she won’t leave him as well and told me that their love is more important them anything in this world, and I told him to stop meeting her and never call her and with time you will forget her, and she will forget it is just a matter of time. He told me ok, I thought that I convinced him months passed by and they were still in a relationship and I didn’t know. In September 2009 Mohammed opened the same topic about Muli and told me that they decided to get married, which was a big shock for me. I was so mad at him and told him ” our friendship is over, don’t call me again and try to stay out of my life because such a thing like is will make a big problem with her family, and I want to live in peace with my family. I told him that there will be consequences for what u will do and I deleted his phone number and stopped meeting him. Ten days later, Mohammed came to my home and opened Muli’s topic and I told him that I don’t want to talk about the same topic but he insist and begged me to hear him. I agreed. Then he told me about his plan which was escaping with Muli to Greece and from Greece to Europe, I refused to help him because it was such a dangerous mission and I was really so scared because if her family knows we would get killed. For Yemenis, Eritrean souls are worthless, especially when the topic is related to disgrace. As we all know Yemeni society are so conservative and I told him “as long as you will not forget Muli, please don’t come to my home” and then he stopped coming to my home until October. In October, he came with a huge surprise, which is that Muli will sacrifice for him and will leave her family, home and country for him and what got me mad more is when he told me that he let her lost her virginity, at that moment I realized that they will face a lot of problems. So me and my wife decided to help them, especially my wife, she was sympathetic with then from the beginning. I promised then that I’ll find a guaranteed trafficker that will let then escape from Yemen and until that day I told them to stay away from each other and not to meet a lot. Muli suggested to get married to Mohammed to live their life like any normal spouses when they get the chance, and not to upset god by doing something forbidden , so that is why she suggested to marry mohammed. The marriage contract without guardian attendance isn’t allowed and also it’s not allowed for a Yemeni girl to marry a guy which isn’t from Yemen. So we searched for an Eritrean Sheikh which is from our country, so he keep this important secret and be helpful with us. Finally we found Shiekh Mohammed and he was Eritrean and we told him to make the marriage contract without the guardian attendance, then the sheikh required to hear from Muli that she accept, so the marriage will done successfully. We set a date In 2009.The sheikh asked Muli, ‘would you accept mohammed as a husband?’ She agreed and they got married and there was no people during the marriage except me, my wife, the sheikh himself and another two Eritrean witnesses and it wasn’t that big party, there were just some biscuits and Pepsi and after finishing the wedding small party, Muli arrived to her family’s home. I aware both of them not to meet a lot till I find them the way how they will Escape from Yemen, but they never heard my advices. Their love was a way important than any advices. Everything was ok since that miserable day, when Muli’s male cousins saw Mohammed and Muli having their dinner together in a restaurant in Hadda street, then they followed them and had a fight with Mohammed and kicked him so hard, after that Mohammed called me from the hospital and told me what happened to him, but I refused to go to the hospital to make sure that no one will know me from Muli’s family. I told Mohammed to leave the hospital and go to one of our mutual friends home and never come to my home till I find another apartment for rent because I was so scared that they threat Muli and she tell them about my home and know that she lost her virginity. The day after it I immediately moved to another apartment because I was scared. I took Mohammed to my new apartment، but it was so hard to us that we don’t know what is happening with Muli when she disappeard. Our life turned to hell because of worrying about her till the day that Muli called us and told us that her family will make her marry her cousin who is a way older than her by force within a few days and that she was waiting for the good chance to escape We made a plan and let her escape from her families home and she came to us with the dowry of her marriage, she sacrificed a lot for their romantic love and then they traveled to Aden till they plan well with the traffickers how to let them escape out of Yemen. But it was even hard to tell such a thing like this to the traffickers, because the penalty of letting a Yemeni girl escape out of her country is death. They wouldn’t be able to live in Yemen anymore because her family already saw Mohammed’s face and if they will see him again they will recognize him and there was no solution except traveling out of Yemen. In July we found for Mohammed a similar passport and I suggested to him to escape and travel before Muli and Muli will stay in my home till I find the good and safety way to let her escape out of Yemen. Probably in July Mohammed escaped to Syria and the separation was so hard for Muli but she understood the situation and she stayed at my home for two years,, two years full of sadness, u can say that she was scaring of going out she felt like that she was in jail. She was so scared of her family finding her, and she was also missing Mohammed a lot and that was the most important issue for her. Me and my family was scared too during the 2 years which passed, we were scared of that she get sick and we will not be able to take her to the hospital, we were telling her that if she wants to travel, she should take care of her health, so she meet Mohammed in a good health. Her situation was so hard, she was so sad, when I see her depressed my tears fall down immediately. Finally we found the Egyptian trafficker who will let her escape out of Yemen, so we all live in peace, no responsibility anymore. And now I’m ready to help them, to make them live a happy life and forget about what happened to them, but from what you told me, it’s clear that they are still suffering. I really respected Muli more because of what she did, she is the only Yemeni girl who broke the rules of Yemeni traditional for Mohammed, that is the real love,, especially that she was from a rich and well-known family and that they might find her, but she didn’t care , that is what Make me respect her more and more.. (…)