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July 6, 2006
UK: High Court Judge Solo On Forced Marriage
Just a few weeks after the Home office decided that it would not make forced marriage illegal. A High Court Judge by the appropriate name of "Mr Justice Munby"- picture to the left - to the embarrassment of the Home Office anulled a forced marriage in his court ruling, calling It among others, an abomination :
"Forced marriage is a gross abuse of human rights. It is a form of domestic violence that dehumanises people by denying them their right to choose how to live their lives. It is an appalling practice." "No social or cultural imperative can extenuate and no pretended recourse to religious belief can possibly justify forced marriage. Forced marriage is intolerable. It is an abomination."
Said Judge Justice Munby in his ruling, and the Home Office should perhaps consider if he got a point somewhere.
The victim, a young teenage girl of Pakistani origin had been forced to marry her cousin, after first being subject to moral blackmail, like her parents would kill themselves if she did not comply.
She was lured to Pakistan and though not subjected to violence, her passport was taken and she was not allowed to return to UK until she had married her cousin. All the while of course being pressured to consummate the marriage.
This young girl, being treated as commodity, was meant to marry the cousin to facilitate a Visa to him. To further his chance - as well to add salt to the wound - he raped her several times in the hope she would bear a child, hoping again that his process of getting a Visa to the "promised land" would become more easy by this.
UK government estimate thousands of girls are forced to marry each year. Mainly by being send abroad.
A special Foreign Office group has helped 1250 with this problem the last years.
More about this in the Daily Mail
Posted by Charles Martel at July 6, 2006 1:56 PM
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