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.US authorities said a woman invited her family to her wedding, but they disapproved and kidnapped her instead.
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.
"The Victim was told if she did not comply and agree to an arranged marriage, she would be locked up in her home without contact with the outside world forever and her fiancé, who her family disapproved of, would be killed," read a DOJKidnapping charges are pending against Khaled and Waleed Abughanem, the woman's father and brother, who are currently in custody. A detention hearing for the pair, scheduled for February 17, has been delayed until March 2.
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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