forced marriage

I wrote this little piece today after doing a bit of research about Forced Marriages...

Last Tuesday here in Britain we discovered the tragic story of Gina Satvir Singh, a young ex-bride once caught in an arranged marriage. She had been routinely forced to do menial works for dusk until dawn by her mother-in-law. Treated as a slave, her marriage fell apart and finally went to pieces when she decided to move out of their shared house. Sign sued her jailer under the 1997 Protection from harrassment Act and won £ 35,000 in compensation. The case was unusal, but I rejoiced at the thought that the young woman won her case - maybe her example would encourage newly-wed women in similar positions of abuse to seek both freedom and justice.