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Forced & Underage Marriage
Arranged marriage: Judge protects woman with learning disabilities
(BBC) A judge has taken action to protect a woman with learning disabilities in an arranged marriage that happened in Pakistan. Luton Borough Council, which had responsibility for the woman, asked Mrs Justice Theis to consider issues relating to her care. The […]
Health & Medicine
Man pleads guilty to terrorism offences ahead of trial for allegedly planning attack on St James’s hospital in Leeds Mohammad Farooq, 27, is accused of taking a pressure cooker bomb to St James's Hospital in Leeds after a failed attempt to launch a terrorist attack on RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, motivated by an interest in radical Islam.
(Sky News) A clinical support worker has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences ahead of his trial for allegedly planning an attack on a maternity hospital in Leeds and an RAF station in North Yorkshire. Mohammad Farooq, 27, from Roundhay in Leeds, is […]
Children & Teens
Child marriage survivors say UK law legitimizes ‘terrible’ abuse
(Reuters) When Zee was 13, she returned from school one day to find an engagement party under way at her home in northern England, but her excitement at the celebrations quickly turned to shock. “I asked my mum who’s getting married. She […]