Mum jailed for forcing daughter into fatal marriage – BBC

Mum jailed for forcing daughter into fatal marriage

A mother has become the first person to be jailed under Australia’s forced marriage laws, for ordering her daughter to wed a man who would later murder the 21-year-old.

Sakina Muhammad Jan, who is in her late 40s, was found guilty of coercing Ruqia Haidari to marry 26-year-old Mohammad Ali Halimi in 2019, in exchange for a small payment.

Six weeks after the nuptials, Halimi killed his new bride – a crime for which he is now serving a life sentence.

On Monday, Jan – who pleaded not guilty – was sentenced to at least a year in jail, for what a judge called the “intolerable pressure” she had placed on her daughter.

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Other stories of surviving child and forced marriage:

• Washington state survivor trapped in child marriage at age 12 now advocates for an end to this abuse
• ‘When anything like this happens to a little girl, their lives are forever changed.’ Tamara’s story of surviving child marriage that began when she was 12.