Girls as sex slaves - mirror of the world - the ARD, The First
We meet Munevera Khan in a women's centre in Hyderabad
She says she is years old
In your face, the tragedy is reflected in your life so far: eleven-year-old she had been when her parents sold you for.
The Euro: 'I was not even asked. My Relatives came together and have decided to get married, to a -year-old man from Oman. But you told me it was only on the day of the wedding. When I saw the old man, I just cried. I protested and I said, I'm much too young for that. Child marriages are banned in India. At Munevera it ran as many of the girls here in the women's center: matchmaker to get fake documents. A corrupt Imam performs the wedding Ceremony. Munevera had to go with the old man. For three weeks he worked with them in a Hotel in Hyderabad. Then, he disappeared. Munevera was pregnant. As the 'Sheik' found out about it, he said the divorce, on the phone from Oman. These quick divorce according to Muslim religious law has been recognised in India.
Eight years ago.
Muneveras the daughter of a musician has seen her father again: 'I have suffered much. When I think about it, it makes me not finished yet. I don't want to cry here in front of my daughter. A musician should not have to ask why your mother is unhappy.
Her exact birth date is not an issue
That would strain you too much.
Munevera takes us to her mother. She had no choice: As a Pregnant woman, a child and then as a a single mother, she had to go back to their parents. Raffia Begum tells us how she herself suffers from the whole story, the divorce of her daughter, mind you.
At the marriage, you can still find nothing Wrong.
She had wanted her daughter to have it good in the Emirates and is not suspected that the old man wanted only Sex: 'Our neighbors had married their daughter to a Sheikh. The neighbor's daughter has a new house and a small fortune. I had hoped for. Therefore, we have been married for Munevera. The neighborhood, in the Munevera grew up, is a Muslim slum. Many families see the benefits to sell the daughters in the United Arab Emirates. The women's rights organization, Shaheen says that this happens in every third family. Every day, desperate girls come to the women's center. Not always to be abroad to be married. Often it is Problems of everyday life. Jamel Nashat has established Shaheen. The poverty argument won't let you apply. The Problem is that many Muslim families see the girls as a commodity: 'poverty is no excuse. The people here were always poor. It is pure greed.
Especially when the daughters are sold for a quick divorce even more often.
Pro wedding, the parents receive about the Euro.
A good looking girl and very young girls, it can be even up to the Euro.
Recently, the authorities crackdown in Hyderabad against girl trafficking.
A few weeks ago, the police arrested many Indian Matchmaker and marriage-minded men from the Emirates.
Many are married in the home already, seek to claim lots of Second or Third wives or just fast fun. We meet the man who made these arrests possible: Haji Khan has, for many years, even Arab men illegal weddings. He shows us the Hotels, the with him together have worked. We should get out, he says, the give Trouble. He tells us that the slave trade had been so easy, because many Indians certificates, until recently, neither birth nor identity cards possessed: 'The girls say now, you were eleven or twelve years old. But that's not true. In reality, they were already, I think. Well, some may also be, or have been, the were but very few.
In any case, we have doctored, as agents, then the papers or years.
The Scheiches via middle men to contact us. They traveled then, officially, to the hospital to treat. Then you marry the girl.
Most of you leave here.
I knew the whole time that all of this is illegal, and that I'm going to jail if the police caught me. Eventually, he got a bad Conscience, he says.
Haji Khan talked to the police and a girls trafficking ring busted.
The Deputy chief of police of Hyderabad confirmed this to us.
He has directed the investigations and can't believe it still, that parents sell their underage children.
Mohammad: 'There are so many disturbing things in this investigation. The have surprised us here. How can parents do something like that. You don't know, when a child comes home from school, then you are calling the police. But here we have the case that the parents sold the children, deliberately abroad. Many people in the Muslim slums of Hyderabad are deeply religious. And so it is not surprising that corrupt clergy in the girls were involved in trade. You have taken advantage of that the Indian state and the Muslim minority to notarize weddings. The Islamic peace judges have told the parents that everything be done in accordance with the Koran. Munevera Khan has bitterly paid for this cynicism. As a divorced woman with a child will find it difficult to a new Partner: 'I tell my story everywhere. I don't want more girls to be sold. The girl should know what's going to happen to you after that. The women at Shaheen have experienced Bad. For a couple of hours of the day, the centre gives you at least a little comfort and distraction. How can you support the project Shaheen. The First: Please contact us in this regard directly: online Please note: comments do not appear immediately, but will be unlocked within a matter of hours the editorial.
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