Jan is the first person in Australia to be convicted of forced marriage since it was criminalized in 2013.
Sakina Muhammad Jan was the first person convicted under Australia's forced marriage laws.
Some of the measures borrow from forced-marriage laws in Britain, where hundreds of people take out protection orders each year to thwart an impending forced marriage.
Other countries such as France, Canada and Germany also have specific laws against forced marriage.
A month before Jan’s sentencing, the immigration minister circulated a directive specifically naming the crime of forced marriage as serious enough to warrant the removal of a visa.
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