{"id":257,"date":"2013-09-06T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:44:20","slug":"forced-pakistani-marriage-leads-to-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/forced-pakistani-marriage-leads-to-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Forced Pakistani Marriage Leads To Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SWAT, Pakistan &#8212; Police in northwestern Pakistan&#8217;s Swat district have arrested seven men for attempting to force a 16-year-old girl into marriage to settle a family dispute.\u00a0Those arrested include the girl\u2019s father, the prospective groom and his father, and four tribal elders who allegedly brokered the deal. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The case in the village of Shah Dherai was brought to the attention of authorities by the girl&#8217;s brother after she attempted to commit suicide rather than go through with the marriage.\u00a0SWAT, Pakistan &#8212; Police in northwestern Pakistan&#8217;s Swat district have arrested seven men for attempting to force a 16-year-old girl into marriage to settle a family dispute. \u00a0Those arrested include the girl\u2019s father, the prospective groom and his father, and four tribal elders who allegedly brokered the deal. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The case in the village of Shah Dherai was brought to the attention of authorities by the girl&#8217;s brother after she attempted to commit suicide rather than go through with the marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0\u00a0RFE\/RL&#8217;s Radio Mashaal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWAT, Pakistan &#8212; Police in northwestern Pakistan&#8217;s Swat district have arrested seven men for attempting to force a 16-year-old girl into marriage to settle a family dispute.\u00a0Those arrested include the girl\u2019s father, the prospective groom and his father, and four tribal elders who allegedly brokered the deal. If convicted, they face up to 10 years [&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":[7,53,4,3,10],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}