{"id":1514,"date":"2018-05-15T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2018-05-15T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:09:23","slug":"more-than-1000-cases-of-forced-marriage-in-uk-last-year-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/more-than-1000-cases-of-forced-marriage-in-uk-last-year-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 cases of forced marriage in UK last year, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official unit says issue is hidden crime and figures may not reflect full scale of abuse<\/p>\n

Nearly 1,200 possible forced marriage cases were flagged up to a specialist service last year, figures show.<\/p>\n

Of the 1,196 reports handled by the government\u2019s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), more than a quarter involved victims below the age of 18, while one in five related to male victims.<\/p>\n

The total number of cases registered in 2017 was down by 19% on the previous year, but officials said the fall did not represent a decrease in prevalence of forced marriage in the UK.<\/p>\n

Forcing someone to marry against their will is a criminal offence that carries a maximum sentence of seven years. A forced marriage is defined as one in which one or both spouses do not consent to the union, and violence, threats or any other form of coercion are involved.<\/p>\n

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Official unit says issue is hidden crime and figures may not reflect full scale of abuse Nearly 1,200 possible forced marriage cases were flagged up to a specialist service last year, figures show. Of the 1,196 reports handled by the government\u2019s Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), more than a quarter involved victims below the age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forced-marriage","category-honour-based-abuse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}