{"id":1660,"date":"2020-02-03T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:41:22","slug":"birmingham-uncle-jailed-for-trying-to-force-niece-into-pakistan-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/birmingham-uncle-jailed-for-trying-to-force-niece-into-pakistan-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham uncle jailed for trying to force niece into Pakistan marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Birmingham uncle has been jailed after trying to force his niece into a marriage in Pakistan &#8211; where she was &#8220;kept prisoner&#8221; for over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim, now 21, was ubjected to savage beatings at the hands of her relative and one occasion had a gun put to her head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She eventually managed to flee from Pakistan after she was clandestinely smuggled back to the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 55-year-old uncle, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was previously found guilty of arranging a forced marriage and two charges of cruelty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was today sentenced to seven years in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/birmingham-uncle-jailed-trying-force-17665723\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Birmingham uncle has been jailed after trying to force his niece into a marriage in Pakistan &#8211; where she was &#8220;kept prisoner&#8221; for over a year. The victim, now 21, was ubjected to savage beatings at the hands of her relative and one occasion had a gun put to her head. She eventually managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}