Parents drugged, bound and gagged doctor in forced marriage bid

[WriteDown]

Source: The Times

An NHS doctor was imprisoned, drugged, bound and gagged before being forced into marriage in Bangladesh, it emerged today, as a British judge issued an order telling her parents not “to pester, harass or intimidate” her.

Dr Humayra Abedin, 32, was held captive for four-and-a-half months by her family and was forced to marry while under the influence of drugs. She was freed by a court in Bangladesh and returned to Britain on Tuesday.

In the High Court in London this morning, Mr Justice Coleridge issued injunctions against Dr Abedin’s parents, a paternal uncle and the man she was forced to marry.

He declared that it was “vitally important for the message to be understood in those communities where this kind of behaviour is sanctioned” that the courts will act “swiftly and decisively” in cases were there had been such a “gross abuse of an individual’s human rights”......

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5370592.ece

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The judge should have ordered her parents be executed. Hard to imagine anything more monstrous.

[elleng]

1. I agree it is hard to imagine,

but day after day we see/hear about monstrosities.

[Duer 157099]

2. Not another Palin story, is it? n/t

[depakid]

3. Nasty case- glad it's been resolved

But how about we leave the execution fantasies in Texas?

[WriteDown]

4. Sorry...

I just have zero sympathy for these people. I have to think that the Earth would be a lot better off without them(not to mention any other kids they have).

[Milspec]

5. It was a nasty story

but no one is helped fighting 9th century thinking with 9th century thinking.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Executed?

Seriously?

[Tunkamerica]

7. As serious as a ritual beheading.

The punishment must fit the crime!

[RoyGBiv]

8. Uh huh ...

I'm personally not all that enamored with the idea of instituting Biblical law.

[Tunkamerica]

9. Me neither. the bible's too pansy.

We need to rewrite the bible and put in what God would have said had He known about all the bad stuff that's going on today. I bet God would say it's cool to torture terrorists, but it's not cool to drug your daughter and give her a surprise wedding she doesn't remember. Cool to execute the handicapped, not cool to tax the healthy to pay for the handicapped'medical bills. Stuff like that.

[Gwendolyn]

10. Hope it's all behind her and she stays safe.

[LeftishBrit]

11. Horrible story - at least she's safe now!

'The judge should have ordered her parents be executed. Hard to imagine anything more monstrous.'

Two points here:

(1) Britain doesn't have the death penalty, I'm glad to say. It was abolished in 1965.

(2) A British judge cannot impose a punishment on another country's citizens in their own country. They can only take steps to prevent them interfering with a resident of this country. I assume that the parents would not be able to enter this country after this. And it appears that the doctor intends to stay here, and has no plans to return to Bangladesh.


One thing that is truly scary here is the level of 'mind control' that was used: reminiscent of the misuse of psychiatry to control and punish dissidents in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Although forced marriages are a serious world problem, the level of *sophistication* of the intimidation here is exceptional. It is a wonder that she has not completely broken under the mental torture.