She Was Forced to Marry in Bangladesh. In Brooklyn, She Made Her Escape

by Adriana Carranca, in the New York Times  

Ms. Ellman-Larsen then used her phone to post a message on Facebook: “I need a female Bengali advocate now.” The message reached Shahana Hanif, a Bangladeshi-American Muslim feminist and the director of organizing for the Democratic councilman Brad Lander. Ms. Hanif, who contacted the women immediately, struggled for hours to find Ms. Zahan a place to stay before remembering a local mosque that had just opened a safe house for Muslim immigrant women. They checked Ms. Zahan in at about 2 a.m.