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Abducted, shackled & forced to marry at 12 + Pagans lose battle to access Stonehenge

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Pagans lose High Court challenge over access to Stonehenge
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pagan...23378.html

INTRO: Three pagans have lost a High Court challenge to convictions for entering the stone circle at Stonehenge to sing, chant, and charge their crystals as part of their religious beliefs. Lisa Mead and Maryam Halcrow stepped over a barrier to enter the stone circle during a peaceful protest on February 4, 2018 against the management of the World Heritage Site.

At a second demonstration on May 6, 2018, the two women were joined by Angel Grace in breaching the cordon and ignoring no entry signs. Ms Mead, a druid, said she needed access to the historic stones to “charge her crystals to work in healing”, while Ms Halcrow insists she needs to touch the stones on full moons as part of her beliefs. Ms Grace, known as the “bard from Avebury” and the “Stonehenge singer”, claims she needs access to the stone circle eight times a year, and also uses the energy to soothe her aching back.

All three were convicted in November 2018 of breaching protections on the historic Wiltshire site, but took a challenge to the High Court on the grounds that their religious freedoms as well as rights of assembly and expression had been unlawfully infringed. But Lord Justice Dingemans, sitting with Mrs Justice Steyn, today rejected their appeals, saying a victory for the pagans would have put Stonehenge at risk for future generations... (MORE)


Abducted, shackled and forced to marry at 12
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-56337182

INTRO: Farah, a 12-year-old Christian girl, says she was taken from her home in Pakistan last summer, shackled, forced to convert to Islam and made to marry her kidnapper. It's a fate estimated to befall hundreds of young Christian, Hindu and Sikh women and children in the country each year. On 25 June, Farah was at home in Faisalabad, Pakistan's third most populous city, with her grandfather, three brothers and two sisters when they heard knocking on their front door. She remembers her grandfather going to open it. Then three men burst in, grabbed Farah and forced her into a van outside.

They warned the family that if they tried to get her back "they'd make us regret it", says Farah's father, Asif, who was at work at the time. Asif went to the nearest police station to report the crime - even providing the name of one of the abductors, whom Farah's grandfather had recognised - but he says the officers showed little interest in helping. "They were very unco-operative and refused to register the crime. Not only that but they pushed me around and verbally abused me."

Despite repeated complaints to the police it was three months before they finally registered the incident. And even then they took no action. During this time, 12-year-old Farah, who'd been driven 70 miles (110km) to a house in the nearby city of Hafizabad, says she was raped, shackled and treated like a slave. "I was chained most of the time and ordered to clean the abductor's home as well as take care of the animals in the yard outside. It was terrible," she says.

There were about two million Christians in Pakistan at the time of the last census, just over 1% of the total population. According to human rights organisations as many as 1,000 Christian, Hindu and Sikh girls are abducted each year... (MORE)
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