When she was still a teenager Banaz Mahmod was forced into an arranged marriage to a man 10 years older than her. She was beaten and raped by her husband and when her family found out about the horrific abuse she was suffering, they did nothing to help her.
Instead, they told her to remain with the man they had forced her to marry, saying if she left him she would "bring shame on the family".
While she was married, Banaz told police she had been raped and physically abused. When one of her sisters found her covered in bruises, she confronted Banaz's husband, who told the family: "Yes, I do beat your daughter but it's because she's disrespectful.
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