Send us home: Abducted, converted, married, 2 minor Hindu sisters plead outside Pak court
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Outside a Pakistani court, two Hindu women sobbed and pleaded to be allowed to go home. Instead, the court sent them to a safe house. This incident is even more serious because, within 10 days, six cases of kidnapping and forced conversion of minor Hindu girls have already been reported in the district.
Send us home: Abducted, converted, married, 2 minor Hindu sisters plead outside Pak court
Two Hindu sisters in Pakistan's Sindh, who were abducted, forcefully converted and married to Muslim men, pleaded to return home after a court sent them to a safe house. The case highlights the continued atrocities on Hindu minorities in Pakistan and also the instances of abductions, conversions and forced marriages of Hindu girls in Sindh's Tando Allahyar district.
They approached the court and requested to be returned to their parents. The judge was not moved by the two girls' pitiful plea. He ordered them to be sent to a government home.
‘We want to go home’: Abducted, converted, married, 2 minor Hindu sisters plead in Pak
Two Hindu sisters, reportedly aged 13 and 14, were sent to a safe house by a court in Pakistan’s Sindh province after allegedly being abducted, converted to Islam and married. The girls reportedly pleaded to return to their parents. Rights activists have demanded independent legal support and a child-sensitive process.
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