{"id":5498,"date":"2011-09-15T13:58:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/09\/15\/bbc-to-air-forced-marriage-documentary\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:58:55","slug":"bbc-to-air-forced-marriage-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/15\/bbc-to-air-forced-marriage-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to air Forced Marriage documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Stories of two British teenagers forced to marry abroad<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"247\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/ForcedUnwantedMArriage_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>BBC Three is to air an hour-long documentary showing two British teenage girls trying to escape from forced marriages.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The hour-long programme called \u2018My Forced Unwanted Wedding\u2019 took two years to make and tells the story of the two teenagers aged 18 and 17.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Both girls have had their identities changed for protection purposes. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Alia, 18, was forced to marry a man twice her age during a visit to Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Now back in the UK and under pressure to go back to her husband, Alia reveals her painful story. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, 17-year-old Jessie has been promised in marriage to a cousin more than twice her age. She faces being cast out by her family if she refuses.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>My Forced Unwanted Wedding follows Alia and Jessie as they seek the help of the British authorities. In Bangladesh, a team from the British Consulate travels under police guard to reach Jessie. They must act quickly. If the men of the family return while they&#8217;re there, the situation could become volatile. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In Britain the police have now set up a network of specialist units to help the increasing numbers of forced marriage victims. Officers from a unit in Lancashire try and help Alia decide whether to stay in a loveless forced marriage or face serious trouble from her family and start life afresh on her own. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><em>My Forced Unwanted Wedding, Monday 19 September, 9.00-10.00pm BBC THREE<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of two British teenagers forced to marry abroad &#13; &#13; &#13; BBC Three is to air an hour-long documentary showing two British teenage girls trying to escape from forced marriages. &#13; The hour-long programme called \u2018My Forced Unwanted Wedding\u2019 took two years to make and tells the story of the two teenagers aged 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}