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The German parliament approved a law on Thursday which calls for up to five years in prison for anyone forcing a girl or woman into marriage. The new law would also give non-German citizens who are forced by their husbands or families to leave the country after their marriage a legal right to return to Germany.
Penalties for Forced Marriage: Berlin Passes New Integration Measures
Seeded on Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:28 PM EDT
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I commend Germany for this action. No one has any right to force a woman into an arranged “marriage” or to sell them as part of a dowry.
Now all we have to hope for is that the women don’t end up dead before these types of horrific incidents are reported. E.G.: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,344374,00.html
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