What is the ruling on forcing a woman to marry someone she does not want?

Question : If you please. She says: Honorable Shaykh, a woman’s father forced her to marry her cousin, so she married him, and now there are problems between them. Honorable Shaykh.

Answer : I say, may Allah bless you, this is a great and serious matter, and it is forcing a woman to marry someone she does not want. This is among the major sins, and I seek refuge in Allah, or among the minor sins. It is forbidden for the father and others among the guardians to force a woman to marry someone she does not want. If they marry her to someone she does not want, the marriage is defective and she is not lawful for her husband. Yes.
And her husband must avoid her, because she was forced to marry him, and this is a defective marriage. I am advising those unjust guardians who force their daughters to marry someone they do not want.
Oh, glory to Allah! Does he not fear his Lord? Have you seen, O unjust and oppressive father, if someone forced you to marry a woman you do not want, do you not see that this is injustice to you? Do you not see that this is aggression against you? And now, if you marry her off, you will place her under the control of a person she does not want. And there will be constant conflict, discord, and affliction between them. Yes.
I say to this man, let him fear Allah and release his daughter from her husband by any means, because remaining in this marriage is remaining in a defective marriage in which the woman is not lawful for her husband. So let him fear Allah and free his daughter from a husband who is not her husband in the Shari'ah.