(AAP) A young woman felt like her voice and future were being taken away when her mother allegedly coerced her into marrying an older man from another state, a jury has been told.
Prosecutors have accused Sakina Muhammad Jan, from Victoria’s north, of forcing her 20-year-old daughter into marrying a man from Western Australia in 2019.
Jan has pleaded not guilty and denies her daughter Ruqia Haidari, who has since died, told her that she did not want to marry Mohammad Ali Halimi.
Sitting in the court dock supported by a translator, Jan faced the first day of a trial at the County Court in Melbourne on Wednesday.
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