The phrase "despite being forbidden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something occurs or is accepted even though it is not allowed.
Example: "She continued to meet him in secret, despite being forbidden by her parents."
Alternatives: "in spite of being prohibited" or "regardless of the ban".
In any case, the law and reality often differ: despite being forbidden from striking, prison warders walked out in 2007 over a pay dispute.
His novels in particular those known, after Indonesia's prison island, as the "Buru Quartet"—are widely admired abroad, and, despite being forbidden there, in his own country as well.
With tales such as "Raiser of Sprouts" and "A Night In Potato Village", the disciples of utopia did their best to produce a brave new literature - despite being forbidden, on pain of death, to write about anything but tractors, seeds and fertiliser.
That visit and more is documented in This is Not a Film (Palisades Tartan, 2011, U), in which, despite being forbidden from plying his trade, assembling a cast or calling: "Action!", Panahi simply oozes cinema, conjuring moving pictures all around him like the magic lantern shows that bedazzled audiences more than a century ago.
During the early 1980s, weaponization of ricin occurred in certain states despite being forbidden by international treaties [ 11].
Congo red is a toxic and carcinogenic dye, which despite it being forbidden is still used in some developing countries in the textile industry and via their wastewaters is entered to the environment without treatment.
This, despite the country being forbidden, under clause nine of its postwar constitution, from maintaining an army in the traditional sense.
He also made himself more unpopular by being outspoken and taking on roles in his second and third years despite the practice being forbidden by school policy.
Both children can read and write, she said, despite having been forbidden to attend school.
Despite this, she is forbidden to leave Minsk, join her husband or work as a journalist.
In Egypt, women are playing soccer professionally despite men saying it's forbidden.
