Shirin Musa

Shirin Musa is a Pakistani-born Dutch women's rights activist who is the founder of Femmes for Freedom.^[1] She has introduced the concept of marital captivity to Dutch society.^[1]

Musa in 2015

Musa married a Dutch Pakistani. In 2002 they married for the Dutch law and in 2005 they had their religious marriage. In 2008 they separated. On the 9th of December 2010 the judge also ended her religious marriage, after a long struggle with her husband who refused to cooperate. ^[2] Musa was born in Quetta, the capital city of the Pakistani province Balochistan and came to the Netherlands as a baby.