"...He's chasing her with a hammer?" "Yes." "How do you know it's his daughter?" Does it fucking matter? He's chasing her with a *hammer*

For a Muslim girl to go to the police to report her family ... it’s deep ... believe what she says... it took a lot of courage

The dad in the beginning at the police station says he told his daughter "I will not beat you this time", why don't they ask questions about that?

When I was 15 there was a family in Bangladesh that desperately wanted me to marry their eldest son who was 12 years older than me coz they wanted me to bring him to london. They wore harassing my parents to take me to Bangladesh and get me married. Nobody asked me if I wanted to get married and I never even met him. 6 months before the wedding I ran away

"You can hit your wife", but not your daughter? All wives are someones daughter.

They talk about respect but don’t respect their daughters.

Roxanna is such a level headed girl, she’s heart broken that her family have disowned her but knows that she’s better off away from them. I really hope she’s doing well in life .

Arranged/forced marriage should be classified as human trafficking. What's the difference between a pimp or trafficker selling a human being in exchange for money or property?

Men in these types of cultures have way too much power.

" this kids always had this dream that he'll come from Pakistan to England to have a better life, but it's never gunna happen cuz I'm never gunna marry him!" lol yes!! gurl!

Can we talk about how brave and amazing Sajidaa is for leaving her husband and protecting her children? The amount of courage that needs in any culture is a lot. In this sort of a culture it seems almost impossible. I hope her and her children have a good life and future

"You can beat wives but not daughters" and somehow he thinks he is okay to say this inside a police station 🤡🤡🤡

Forced marriages should be illegal everywhere. Neither women nor men should be forced to be married against their will simply because their families want it, no matter the reason.

Roxanna is such an honourable, self strong, independent woman. Her parents should be proud of the young woman they have raised instead of passing her off to be another man's property.

If these people want to come and live in England they have to abide by the laws. I know they are probably pissed that the government is meddling in their affairs but I’m so glad that there are laws and people working to prevent this cruelty.

If this happens in England, I wonder how many girls are suffering from all this, in Pakistan. ☹️

I think the worst part for me is the mother's role in all of this. They've been through the same fear, beatings, lack of freedom, and forced impregnation from being married off, so how could they force their daughters to go through that? Kudos to the lady at 41:50 I'm glad she decided to protect her children

When you see a house with locks on the internal doors you will find a controlling lunatic.

I’m nearly 40 years old, not for a second of my life have I been as brave as these girls.

These situations are the most frustrating when the victims don’t call out their parents, especially their abusive fathers. As a person who was brutally injured by my dad, I can tell you that you have to punish them otherwise your siblings and the future generations will suffer similar fates. It’s tough but please try to do the right thing and stay resilient

He admits hitting his wife, states he hits his son and then says he told her he wasn't hitting her" this time".. It is a culture thing but he needs to understand A) he chose to live in a country where this is illegal, B) he chose to raise his children in a country where this is not acceptable, C) beating another person is illegal AND morally wrong , D) love is not abuse, E) would he enjoy being abused? Hit? Forced to do something against his will ?.

Can we talk about how amazing these police officers are. They have a empathetic order about them. Nothing like that here in the US.

Forced Marriage = Trafficking your own children. These "parents" are awful people. My incubator did the same thing to me. Fast forward 30 years and she can't seem to figure out why I want nothing to do with her. The narcissist is always the perpetual victim. While the survivor knows better. 😑 The US could sure use a force like this.

❤❤ these poor girls , I was abused by my family and husband and I am from the gypsy community- I had to move to another part of the country with my 3 children ❤️

"You can hit your wife, you can hit your son, but not your daughter." What -

I am a male victim of this crime but us males are not highlighted. My life was ruined; I was 17 in 1994 when they pretended to take me on a holiday to Pakistan; once there they took away my passport and said to me "you ain't returning until you marry this thing and get her pregnant" . I was in a remote village without money or means of contact. The police ignored me there. I was used as a bridge by my parents and dad's sister to help her daughter to climb in the UK over my happiness. Can you put someone else's happiness over your sons happiness. If I could, I would love for her British citizenship to be revoked and see her returned to Pakistan and banned from coming to the UK. I hate her with passion. The funny things is this documentary totally ignored that it happens to young men. Probably not as much, but it does happen. I am a successful and happy man but this haunts me at times and humiliates me to my core.

This also happened to me I am not from UK I am from Pakistan .Past year my father(who always tormented me and treated me as a liability) forced me (basically I was physically abused, beaten up )I had no choice but to obey his order although its legally a crime and this marriage is invalid in islam but he is a Muslim of convience .I got married with a heavy heart but his choice my ex husband was also very abusive and had immoral affairs .I prayed to Allah and he gave me strength to walk away and escape from that abusive marriage and I am now divorced and trying to make my life better.I am just 22 and went through the trauma . This is a big problem in Pakistan every other marriage is either emotionally and physically forced upon young generation by elders mostly fathers and sadly this regressive mentality British Pakistanis take with them into liberal societies .

That saddest thing I ever saw growing up in the 80s was a family friend daughter that was a successful lawyer being forced arranged marriage, he was only daughter and sister to 8 brothers.her life became dark and dim she had 7 children with a man that was horrible wasn't good too her but it was all sake of honor heartbreaking to see her walk the streets with mental health issues as bad as they had to section her many times. This was a beautiful intelligent lawyer that had no voice against her family

im soo glad this has now been taken seriously by the law, i remember years ago at school muslim friends as young as 13 being taken on a sudden vacation and never returning back, later hearing they had been married off, usually to older relatives they didnt know, this practice needs to be stamped out there is no place for it in the UK

I'm so impressed with the U.K. Forced marriage unit.

I had a friend who had an arranged marriage since he was 4 and she was 3. He said that growing up being told this will be your wife was weird. Every time they would meat and hang out, they both felt like they had to get along because they had to spend all there lives together. They never really liked each other, but they didn't hate each other. To them that was enough. When he left home the marriage was called off. He never dated any other girl, he said it'd feel like he was cheating. So he was kind of lost when it came to dating, he hadn't even thought of it before.

I worked in a prison. We had a very sad situation. A young man, just over 21 came into the jail for murdering his sister. She had refused marriage. He was the youngest son. He had be coerced by the family to kill her. He was the youngest, most expendable member of the family. He was just as much a victim as his sister. He just said as we put him in the cell. "It is the way it is." It was so sad that he had been sacrificed too for some spurious idea of honour.

I am so overtaken by Roxanna- what an incredibly strong woman with such a big heart. All these girls are incredible!

it's funny how the arrested parents suddenly can't speak English..

"He's not gonna come as I won't marry him." 😂😂😂😂

Here in Canada the police press charges. You cannot withdraw domestic abuse charges.

Rukshana is such a brave woman. The thought of being cut off from everything and everyone you know must’ve been so scary for her and yet she found the courage to leave. Her courage is so admirable.

"I won't beat you this time, I'll just tell you..."

I feel so lucky, that my parents were more enlightened, I am of Eastern decent, born in Trinidad, to Eastern Indian family. My parents love us thier children, could never put us in danger, and we allowed us to make our own decisions of whom too marry. All they wanted is for us, to be happy, and enjoy a happy life. Mommy and Papy thank you much.

This girl must be admired for her courage. She has put everything she got to come here.

The sad reality is that forced marriage is still happening all around the world with no voice to speak for them...

Manchester's cops you are doing an excellent great job helping those in forced marriages. and also great job to the campaign to say no to forced marriages of Jasvinder Sanghera...God bless you all to the success of you all...

I can't imagine how torn and brave these girls are. Fully believing in your religion, living your whole life believing in your customs, believing in your family, but still being brave enough to try and get away. All at a very young age. I applaud these girls, and the officer's dedication to helping them. It's not like a normal cop job, arresting drunks or normal stuff like that. They have to truly connect with the victims and see through the family ties and subtle intricacies of culture and secrets, so they can help these girls. I don't know how anyone can care more about customs than their own children, and view them as objects to do with as you please including hurt them. It's heartbreaking. I'm so glad these girls have someone to turn to.

The man said “I can never hit my daughter. You can hit your wife and sons, but not the daughter…” and the he told the police about the incident with his daughter: “I told her I don’t hit you THIS time” which clearly indicates that he has hit her before and most likely hit her also during this incident….

In the words of Philip defranco, if they're gonna implement this outdated ideas, they should be forced to live in the same conditions as those in the past who believed this was normal.

As someone with a lot of Muslim friends, there were many girls I knew that would tell me about how their parents would threaten them with forced marriages if they didn't do well in school or were hanging out with boys. My friend Nasima was really quiet and secluded. She was part of my circle of friends and wore the most religious clothing out of my Muslim friends. She attended my high school for three years before she just disappeared. None of my friends knew where she wentand she never spoke about her home life so I never expected this to happen. I still wonder today whether she was forced into marriage or if she just moved. These documentaries about forced marriages have really made me reflect on what happened back then and I'm only seeing now just how radically different western and eastern cultures are. I hope the girls in the documentary stay safe and I hope the same for Nasima.

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams...

Watching this I can't help thinking of young me at 14, had to leave home suddenly one morning, after a night I thought I wouldn't survive an outburst of my "father", and my mom and me ran away and found a shelter. Didn't even have time to process, my room my pets my home and all stuff and photos, everything I knew, all left behind. I'm 44 now, seems time just doesn't always heal everything. Family...

This is so sad. Here we are in the year 2017, and so many men are still acting like spoiled little brats, treating their wives and daughters like possessions.

This reminds me of when I was in highschool. There was a girl in my science class that was from the middle east. She migrated with her family years beforehand. We had a new male student who had only been in the states for about three months. One day he stood up in the middle of class and pointed at the girl yelling at her in his native language. We were all wind eyed and confused. Then he threw a rolled up paper at her and yelled "COVER YOURSELF! YOU SHAME!" My teacher briskly walked over to him and smacked him with her teaching binder. Yelling back at him "You're not at home! She can have her hair like that if she wants. Sit down and shut up before I make you!" Apparently she spoke the language. XD Coolest teacher I've ever had. -I want to add I'm from a CA town that had a lot of immigrants from the middle east & west asia and that is the only time I've witnessed wild or rude behavior.

"We can hit our wives and sons but not our daughters". Truly unimaginable. That level of accepted violence is a horrible way to live. I'll never understand why any culture gives males this permission and sometimes even encouragement. 😢😡

I married someone who my father.hated. But my mother, who was very wise, told him that supporting me when we disagreed was more important than his dislike of my husband. It turned, out many years, later that my Dad was right but because he helped me then, I knew that I could depend on him always! I am so thankful that I had great parents

There is not a single honorable thing about any of this!!! I hurt for these girls.

It's always the women who are at the receiving end of such medieval ideas.

Rixanna you are a very brave, eloquently spoken young lady. I’m glad you found the strength to speak out. I wish you nothing but the best and be proud of yourself. I know it couldn’t of been easy to do what you did. Bless you. ❤️🙏🏾

I am so happy for these girls that are allowed to have a voice . Makes me feel hope for them . Thank you to these great people that are helping them .

That's what these men don't realize: it's their fault if they don't have a boy because it's really the father that decides the gender of a baby.

When it was my time for marriage I found my own wife and got married and still married 25 yrs later and very happy , she’s not Muslim and I never forced her to become Muslim , she’s educated and very respectable lady and she respects my beliefs where as I respect her beliefs. Marry who you want to marry , it’s you two who will spend the time together and just be happy life is too short for anything else .

When the investigator said that Roxanna’s boyfriend would not comment on the abuse by her father I feel like he is scared of him as well. Her boyfriend might feel like he’d be in danger if he testified. I feel so bad for both of them, under the control of someone who doesn’t deserve that kind of power.

I'm very impressed with the UK Police department recognizing the need and doing something about it

If you marry your first cousin and your parents were first cousins and your grandparents were first cousins and your husband also came from a long line of first cousins your offspring are at a much greater risk of serious birth defects. The rate of serious birth defects in the U.k. Among Pakistani community is enormous.

Why you blur their faces? They don't deserve no respect, they should be treated the way they treat other people especially women.

I’m not of the same background and could not comprehend the amount of stress and pain these young ladies are suffering, but their courage and perseverance is to be admired and they need to be protected.

“You can hit your wife. You can hit your son.” That tells a lot what kind of person is! A monster!!

I have never hit my daughter.... ('' and i told her, listen, i won't hit you this time'') -.-

I'm of an Afghan background and I've heard stories like this one too many times. I don't understand why as parents you would move half way across the world for a better life for you and your family... but retain your backward mindset and what's worse, drill backward beliefs such as forced marriage into your children's heads too. I understand why this shit goes on back home in Pakistan for example. You're surrounded by your family, you live in the same unit and are physically bound by your culture. It doesn't make it anymore okay but it makes it easier to comprehend. However the whole point of coming to the UK is to move forward, give your children, the future generation, a chance at education and success. It's beyond me why you would pull them back into the god damn dark ages and chain them there? It's appalling, cruel and what's worse is that these people, they think that what they're doing makes them better Muslims. It shouldn't come as a surprise that forced marriage is sinful in Islam and in actual fact, is illegitimate. Any sexual activity that occurs during the 'marriage' is seen as fornication. So instead of strengthening your faith lol you've actually bought yourself a ticket to hell. Rightly so.

Was I the only one who had a problem with the way the (Asian, I'm assuming) police officer spoke with her? His main concern is seemingly that she'll be alone, not that she'll lose her life if she goes home. That's so sad that there was not one word of commemorance on his end for making that decision despite being alone. I know because I also had to leave my family like that for similar reasons. Good for her, having that weight off your shoulders and not having to walk on eggshells anymore... Having your first taste of real freedom is indescribable.

I was married to a man who've I had a 5 min conversation with and that was it. Meeting him, engagement, and wedding all in 3 weeks. My father called it "an arranged marriage" But my father had to pick and approve. I was a teenager, very abusive for 11 years.

We need these laws in the US.

you can't hit anyone fool

any father who dare to threaten their kids with death don't deserve sympathy.

I'm watching from Saskatchewan. I've seen his friendly, kind face going through my Facebook feeds a few months back. Watching this, watching them in pain while not knowing.. My prayers from Saskatchewan my friends. Hugs going to mom and brother.

incest should be made illegal for the sake of the unborn child, fucking revolting!

I am impressed with the UK'S action setting up units like these and training the staff to be empathetic, non judgemental and understanding of these cultural practices that sadly exist. Love to see Jasvinder campaigning and bringing awareness, what amazing work you do!

It looked like your husband messed up your face...yet you are so brave to stand up to him. You divorced him and got protection ...good deed lady. Good deed!

So heartbreaking! Thankful for all the support they have!

“It’s never gonna happen, cause I’m not marrying him” YES GIRL STAND YO GROUND

I won't beat you this TIME really??

I am amazed with this lvl of support... I live in the UK and didn't even know that it was taken so seriously by the police! I wish they would make it a reality tv show not to exploit these young women, but so that it would become more common knowledge and reach the women who need help.

As a teenager I didn want that burden on me. It was just me against so many of them. I felt that to my core. I was Bethroted at age 9 then forced to marry at 18 right out of high school. I’m female!

There is no honour in forcing or threating your child to marry someone they dont want .These people dont even understand yet alone know what true honour is .

If the families want to practice their way of life over here in the U.K. They have to be told that this is not allowed and if they continue to do it then they should be returned to their country and never allowed entry into the UK 🇬🇧 ever again!

Watching from the US, God bless these officers, my heart truly goes out to these women.

The police officers are so kind in the way they dealt with the situation

This reminds me of banaz, a young lady who was murdered for finding love. I'm glad that there are new laws to try and prevent more assaults and deaths.

Once you get married to someone that you don't want to its like you were forced to sell your soul.

Heartbroken for these women, I just can't imagine the fear, and sadness 😢

The police force is amazing. As a women from the south asian country - Thank you!!!

Appalling that a man's and other family members' sense of honour is totally dependent on their daughters' and sisters' submission to their wills, so they can be raped by strangers. And that that "honour" is above all natural protection of these girls and young women; better to threaten, abuse and even murder their children rather than let them be free to decide for themselves and "shame" the family. There is nothing honourable whatsoever in this mindset. This is evil abuse. Sick.

Even though I’m a British Indian girl I’m thankful that I haven’t been forced to be married. I think those parents that force their kids to get married are stupid.

My heavens....what a nightmare of a life!!! Glad they have a special task force to protect these people!!!

They have so much courage like someone else said because what they could suffer from doing this is just so sad and hurtful so a applaud them because it took REAL COURAGE AND BALLS to do that. GOD BLESS THEM

"Father can't hit daughters, so I told her I will not hit you this time." Mmmmhmmmm.

we rarely see depictions of police in a positive light, what compassionate men they are exemplary!

Wonderful work this force is doing!

I went through the same thing and the parents and family members always lie about these things.

That woman was a true mother. She stood up for her daughters

An abuser will always deny, deny, deny. "I won't hit my daughter, I will hit my wife and sons".. hmm.. would have questioned that from the get go. He laughs about what the daughter accuses him of. He's guilty. I lived a similar life.

Glad to see change. Glad to see these girls now have options.

Thank god these wonderful officers r finally helping these poor girls.... it’s such a shame it didn’t save the other poor girls from the honor killing they met their end with...😢