Raveena

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Raveena was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.

In March 2019, armed men reportedly kidnapped 15-year-old Raveena and her 14-year-old sister, Reena, from their home in Gotki district, Sindh province. In rapid succession, the sisters were converted to Islam, renamed, and then married to the men accused of abducting them. The seminary that facilitated Raveena's conversion and marriage recorded her as 19 years old and as having converted to Islam of her own free will, contrary to her family's claim that she was underage and acted under coercion. Lawyers affiliated with the seminary filed a court petition to formally "protect" Raveena from her Hindu family.

In April 2019, the Islamabad High Court ruled that Raveena's conversion was not forced and permitted her to remain with her husband, despite her family's allegations that she was a minor and had been coerced.