A Spoon Can Stop A Forced Marriage? It Works!
August 18, 2013
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4:22Now PlayingA Spoon Can Stop A Forced Marriage? It Works!
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as posted by the channel"As Britain puts airport staff on alert to spot potential victims of forced marriage, one campaigning group says the trick of putting a spoon in their underwear has saved some youngsters from a forced union in their South Asian ancestral homelands.
The concealed spoon sets off the metal detector at the airport in Britain and the teenagers can be taken away from their parents to be searched — a last chance to escape a largely hidden practice wrecking the lives of unknown thousands of British youths."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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