On June 6, Christian rights activists and legal experts revealed during a press conference in Lahore, Pakistan, that the documents used to validate the marriage of 13-year-old Maria Shahbaz were extensively forged. These documents were presented to the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) by the 30-year-old abductor, Muhammad Shehryar. Earlier in March, the FCC ruled that the marriage between Shehryar and Shahbaz was valid under both Pakistani law and Islamic law. The court based its decision on the observation that Maria looked older than her actual age.