"forbidden him from" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used in the passive voice to indicate that someone has been prohibited from doing something. Example: The teacher was forbidden him from entering the school building.
They also unavoidably refer to his own confinement, which China's government has forbidden him from discussing.
Yet she has forbidden him from speaking with the press – even with Yvonne Ridley – because, she told me, he was too traumatised.
An appearance by the Iranian director Jafar Panahi is unlikely: His last-minute entry, "In Film Nist" (This is Not a Film), was made clandestinely and in defiance of the regime that has forbidden him from making movies.
As a boy, he had loved the sport and had nurtured ambitions to be a professional athlete but his mother had forbidden him from wrestling at high school and he was never cut out to be a world-class competitor.
It appeared as if he was intentionally trying to sabotage his trial, and since then, the judge has forbidden him from talking to the press in the environs of the courthouse.
Shortly before the nonfilm was shot (with a digital video camera operated by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and an iPhone wielded by Mr. Panahi), the Iranian government had sentenced Mr. Panahi to six years in prison and forbidden him from making films for 20 years.
In non-theoretical real life, he's currently one month into two-and-a-half years for disobeying an ASBO [an anti-social behavior order] that forbade him from-no surprises here-walking around naked.
We can't forbid him from living".
She forbade him from playing football early on.
Will his new contract forbid him from bowling ever again?
The Taliban leader insisted that tradition forbade him from handing over his guest.
