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| Missing GP released in Bangladesh | |
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| A missing NHS doctor has been freed into the custody of a Bangladesh court following claims she was being held captive in the country by her parents. | A missing NHS doctor has been freed into the custody of a Bangladesh court following claims she was being held captive in the country by her parents. |
| Lawyers for trainee GP Humayra Abedin, 33, from east London, said her family planned to force her into marriage. | Lawyers for trainee GP Humayra Abedin, 33, from east London, said her family planned to force her into marriage. |
| She had travelled to Dhaka in August after hearing her mother was very ill. | She had travelled to Dhaka in August after hearing her mother was very ill. |
| London's High Court had ordered her return to the UK under the new Forced Marriage Act and the High Court in Dhaka has now ruled she must be freed. | London's High Court had ordered her return to the UK under the new Forced Marriage Act and the High Court in Dhaka has now ruled she must be freed. |
| Lawyer Sara Hossain, representing Dr Abedin, said her client wanted to return to the UK and her family had been ordered to return her passport. | |
| "We're delighted with the result, the rights of a Bangladeshi woman have been protected as they should be," she said. | |
| "Dr Abedin looks very relieved, she's a very brave woman." | |
| Dr Abedin's parents had been ordered to appear at Dhaka's High Court with their daughter on Sunday. | |
| She was later released into the custody of the court and handed over to the British High Commission before flying back to the UK in the next few days. | |
| Judge Syed Mahmud Hossain said her parents' actions were "not acceptable". | |
| Early flight | Early flight |
| The BBC's Mark Dummet in Dhaka said Dr Abedin's father collapsed from shock after the ruling. | |
| Dr Abedin arrived in Britain in September 2002, when she studied for a Masters degree in public health at Leeds University. | Dr Abedin arrived in Britain in September 2002, when she studied for a Masters degree in public health at Leeds University. |
| She had been due to start work in August as a registrar at a GP surgery in east London but travelled to Dhaka after being told that her mother was ill. | She had been due to start work in August as a registrar at a GP surgery in east London but travelled to Dhaka after being told that her mother was ill. |
| The British High Court had served her family with an injunction under the Forced Marriage Act ordering them to free their daughter and allow her to return to the UK. | |
| However, this was not enforceable overseas because Dr Abedin is not a British national. | |
| A Foreign Office spokeswoman said the order was issued in the hope that it might "carry some weight" within the Bangladeshi court system. | |
| The High Court in Bangladesh has now backed the decision and ordered Dr Abedin's parents to allow her to return to Britain. | |
| Dr Abedin will remain in the care of the British High Commission in Dhaka until she flies back to the UK in the next four days. |