Report: Forced Child Marriages Skyrocketing In Switzerland
12th August 2016
Involving you-know-who.
Swiss news organization The Local reports that the center has uncovered 26 cases of forced marriages where the victims were under the age of 16 this year alone. Some victims were as young as ten years old. In the previous ten years combined the center had found just five cases of forced marriage with a victim below the age of 16.
Anu Sivaganesan, the center’s director, told the local that most of the victims were immigrants from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Somalia and Syria. She added that the increase in asylum seekers to Switzerland likely played a factor in the sharp increase in victims.
Will the Islamophobia never cease?