Zana Muhsen's story stands as a stark warning to all those who say that it can't happen here. All items are secondhand unless stated otherwise. It seems unbelievable that in this day and age girls can still be sold into unwanted marriages which are little more than slavery. Sold: One Womans True Account of Modern Slavery Zana Muhsen. Find your closest one ISBN: 9780751543988 Author: Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts Pub date: 01.12.10 RRP: 31.99 Format: Paperback / softback Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Author Download Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts Zana Muhsen was born in Birmingham. Nadia, her spirit broken by the harsh treatment of her family and unable to take her children with her, has remained in Yemen despite continued campaigning and it seems unlikely that anything can be done to rescue her the legal position is confused and diplomats are reluctant to commit themselves. Buy now Mighty Ape Paper Plus The Nile Or from your local bookstore. Meanwhile, their mother, Miriam, began a furious campaign for their return but once again their dual nationality meant that the Yemeni government need not send them back and it took many years of diplomatic haggling before Zana was permitted to leave, and then only after surrendering her child to her husband's family. Raped by their husbands and regularly beaten, the sisters endured daily hardships, and the ordeal of childbirth without proper medical care.

Nevertheless, when he proposed a holiday for Zana and Nadia to his native Yemen, they could not have expected to find, on their arrival, that he had married them off without their consent, to boys they had never met, and was now abandoning them to life in a village as far removed from life in Birmingham as could be imagined. Her father had already sent an older brother and sister to his family in Aden as small children, and their dual nationality had meant that they could not be returned to England.

By her own account, Zana Muhsen's was a troubled family.

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