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Iman Bukhari and Unwanted Marriage

unwanted marriage: Bukhari spoke to 10 men and women who had been forced into marriage, all between the ages of 17 and 27, but only one agreed to appear in the film: a girl who was taken to her birth nation and forced into an unwanted marriage at age 13, according to Metro News. This girl was a child herself and she went through terrible, terrible things, there was a lot of violence involved, and she was 13 years old that Grade 7 can you imagine and Calgary filmmaker Iman Bukhari is breaking open the hidden reality of forced marriages in Canada in her debut documentary, Forced. People think that because we are in a first-world nation, these things don t happen here, but they do, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.