{"id":36156,"date":"2021-08-30T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/30\/kidnapped-raped-wed-against-their-will-kyrgyz-womens-fight-against-a-brutal-tradition"},"modified":"2021-08-30T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T05:00:27","slug":"kidnapped-raped-and-wed-against-their-will-kyrgyz-womens-fight-against-a-brutal-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36156","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped, raped and wed against their will: Kyrgyz women\u2019s fight against a brutal tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12,000 women are still abducted and forced into marriage every year in Kyrgyzstan. But pressure is growing to finally end the medieval custom<\/p>\n<p>Aisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not far from the Torugart crossing into China. \u201cIt was 5 o\u2019clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I had a paper bag full of <em>samsa<\/em> [a dough dumpling stuffed with lamb, parsley and onion]. My aunt always prepared them on weekends,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA car with four men inside comes in the opposite direction to mine. And all of a sudden it \u2026 turns around and, within a few seconds, comes up beside me. One of the guys in the back gets out, yanks me and pushes me inside the car. I drop all the samsa on the pavement. I scream, I squirm, I cry, but there is nothing I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/30\/kidnapped-raped-wed-against-their-will-kyrgyz-womens-fight-against-a-brutal-tradition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12,000 women are still abducted and forced into marriage every year in Kyrgyzstan. But pressure is growing to finally end the medieval customAisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,53,573,86,78,242,2323,299,440,79,61,297,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-kyrgyzstan","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-satellites","category-science","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-space","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36156\/revisions\/36157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}