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Forced marriage GP's 'gross abuse'

Updated on 19 December 2008

By Julian Rush

An NHS doctor wins a ruling at the high court to stop her being removed from Britain against her will.

Speaking for the first time since returning from her ordeal, Dr Humayra Abedin said she had been kept in a secure hospital and made to take anti-psychotic drugs.

In what the judge called a "gross abuse" of her human rights, her own family held her captive for months and forced her into marriage in Bangladesh.

Jasvinder Sanghera

Jon Snow spoke to Jasvinder Sanghera, the director of Karma Nirvana, which supports forced marriage victims.

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