[Islam in Europe] Sweden: Proposed legislation to outlaw forced marriages

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Sweden: Proposed legislation to outlaw forced marriages

Via The Local:
Anyone in Sweden who forces someone else to get married against their will can be sent to prison, according to proposed legislation presented Thursday which aims to criminalize forced marriages.

"We want to criminalize child marriage and forced marriage. It should also be a punishable offence to take a child out of the country and marry them off there," Göran Lambertz, who heads the government inquiry tasked with drawing up new legislation, told Sveriges Television (SVT).
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