The victim, who according to a statement remains in Yemen 'under the supervision of two of her brothers,' was tricked by her family into leaving Mexico and traveling back to the U.S., where her father promised he would support her marriage to her fiancé.
A group of women rounded up by police from karaoke bars in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat are taken to city hall during a campaign against prostitution and human trafficking involving women and minors on November 9, 2018. - About 50 Laotian women were rounded up by authorities for investigation.DOJ said a woman invited her family to her wedding, but they disapproved and kidnapped her instead.
"You are no longer in the West, you are in the Middle East, women like you are killed," Khaled Abughanem said to his daughter, according to the Justice Department. The American woman — who sought to celebrate her wedding in Mexico — invited her family to the ceremony in Guadalajara last September. Instead, her disapproving father, mother, and brothers conspired to kidnap her in an attempt to force her to marry someone else in Yemen, the Department of Justice alleged in an ongoing case against her father, Khaled, and brother, Waleed.
Representatives for the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York, as well as lawyers for Khaled and Waleed Abughanem did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. It is unclear whether the woman's mother will face charges for her involvement in her daughter's detainment in Yemen.
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