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06/18/04: Factual Aspects FA.2: Religious Extremism; FC.1: Marriage, Divorce, Polygamy; FE.2: Rape & Sexual Abuse;

Uzbekistan: No Love Lost in Karakalpak Bride Thefts
Old practice of abducting women persists despite opposition from Uzbek laws, Muslim clerics and the forced brides themselves. By Alena Aminova in Nukus (RCA No. 294, 18-Jun-04) Gulzabira Toreshova doesn’t believe in happy marriages. She saw her husband for the first time at a friend’s birthday party – by the end of the evening she had been abducted and forced to become his wife. “I didn’t know him at all. The only thing I knew was what my friend told me – that he was a market trader,” recalled Gulzabira. “After the party his friends grabbed me and dragged me into a car. They took me to the home of my future husband, Amanbai. I didn’t even suspect what they were about to do.”

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