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Outlook: My sister Banaz - killed for loving the wrong man

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Payzee and Banaz Mahmod pose for a photo back-to-back before their marriages

15/12/2021 GMT

My sister Banaz - killed for loving the wrong man

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Payzee Mahmod on the tragedy that broke her family and her campaign to end child marriage

Payzee Mahmod is at the forefront of a campaign to end child marriage. It's something both she and her beloved sister Banaz endured, with tragic, horrific consequences.

When Payzee Mahmod was 16, she was forced to marry a man twice her age. She grew up in the UK and her family was from a tight-knit Kurdish community where strict traditions of so-called ‘honour’ played a central part in their lives. So when Banaz – Payzee’s beloved older sister who had also been forced into child marriage – left her husband and started a relationship with a man of her choice, the family thought she had 'shamed' them. The consequences would be tragic and horrific.

Payzee is now an activist and at the forefront of a campaign to end child marriage in England and Wales.

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Presenter: Sahar Zand
Producer: Maryam Maruf

Get in touch: outlook@bbc.com

(Photo: Payzee [L] and Banaz Mahmod [R] before their marriages. Credit: Courtesy of Payzee Mahmod)

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