A 34-year-old man was jailed for 16 years on Wednesday following Britain’s first conviction for the largely hidden practice of forced marriage. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted making a 25-year-old devout Muslim woman marry him against her will. The already-married Welsh businessman, who claimed to follow Islam, systematically raped his…
June 27, 2014 NEW YORK — The New York City cab driver from Pakistan and his daughter both began weeping the second she first took the witness stand at his murder conspiracy trial. Once composed, she told a jury that they had a loving relationship — and that he had once threatened to kill her….
Rotterdam city council suspects that some girls may have been married against their will over the summer. The suggestion stems from a campaign instituted at the end of the last academic term to help girls avoid arranged marriages. In May, Telegraaf reported that the new measures would allow girls who are worried they may be…
The father of a 14 year-old girl married in a Muslim religious ceremony in Evry at 14 in 2000 was sentenced to 30 months (with a 12-month prison sentence) for being complicit this underage marriage. On February 11, 2009, the husband of the young girl, then a 21-year old Moroccan who had paid between 300-450…
NHS doctor Humayra Abedin, who said she has been held captive by her parents ahead of a forced marriage, is returning to the UK. A Bangladesh court’s decision to order her release has been hailed as a “landmark” ruling by her lawyers. But how significant is the case of the 33-year-old trainee GP to the…
