{"id":1107,"date":"2016-04-19T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T09:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:05:36","slug":"marriage-victims-forced-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/marriage-victims-forced-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage victims forced underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2014 it became a criminal offence to forced someone into marriage, but a Bristol-based charity says the law could be forcing victims to &#8220;go underground&#8221; rather than see their family charged.<\/p>\n<p>Following a Freedom of Information request to\u00a0HM Courts and Tribunal Service\u00a0it was revealed that there have been &#8220;fewer than five\u00a0forced marriage protection orders&#8221; made in Bristol since the introduction of the new legislation.<\/p>\n<p>An order can help prevent people being married against their will, stop them being taken abroad to marry and force people to hand in passports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bristol statistics are disappointing and concerning and we need to find out why,&#8221; says Sabeena Suleman, a lawyer who helps run the Sky Project.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/channel\/news-comment\/features\/investigations\/marriage-victims-forced-underground-bristol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2014 it became a criminal offence to forced someone into marriage, but a Bristol-based charity says the law could be forcing victims to &#8220;go underground&#8221; rather than see their family charged. Following a Freedom of Information request to\u00a0HM Courts and Tribunal Service\u00a0it was revealed that there have been &#8220;fewer than five\u00a0forced marriage protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,356,7,4,410,409],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-abusive","tag-bristol","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-passports","tag-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}