{"id":27823,"date":"2019-01-03T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27823"},"modified":"2019-01-03T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:22:54","slug":"british-women-forced-into-marriages-overseas-asked-to-pay-rescue-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27823","title":{"rendered":"British women forced into marriages overseas asked to pay rescue costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London  (CNN)<\/cite>British women sent overseas by their families for forced marriages are being asked by the UK Foreign Office to pay back their rescue costs, according to an investigation by the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/forced-marriage-victims-charged-fee-to-be-rescued-jmnx88hxg\" target=\"_blank\">Times <\/a>newspaper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Victims are in some cases being forced to pay back hundreds of pounds for airfares, food and shelter, in a move criticized by politicians and rights groups.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Foreign Office said in a statement to CNN that as the rescue costs were from &#8220;public funds&#8221; it had an &#8220;obligation to recover the money in due course.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)British women sent overseas by their families for forced marriages are being asked by the UK Foreign Office to pay back their rescue costs, according to an investigation by the UK&#8217;s Times newspaper.Victims are in some cases being forced to pay back hundreds of pounds for airfares, food and shelter, in a move criticized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}