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Girls "being married by Skype"

A human rights charity in Britain claims girls are being forced to marry men living abroad via the internet with the promise of a British passport at the end of it. Freedom, which gives support to victims of forced marriage, alleges that a number of Imams are conducting the ceremonies via Skype and say in one case, an 11-year-old girl from London was married to a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh. Newsday spoke to the charity's President Aneeta Prem
(Picture - A boy during a demonstration against child marriage . Credit: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images)

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