A “Borat”-style bride kidnapping was caught on tape in his home country of Kazakhstan — where taking a woman to be your lawfully wedded hostage is a very real and widely accepted custom. Disturbing ...

You are a 16-year-old girl, going about your business, walking along the streets near your family home. All of a sudden a van pulls up and a group of men accost you. Laughing and yelling, they drag ...

Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research. The researchers looked at the ...

Seven years ago Aijan was walking home from her waitressing job in central Bishkek with two girlfriends. They did not notice the three men following them. As two men tackled the other women, one ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, involves a man abducting the woman he wishes to marry. The woman is often taken unexpectedly and sometimes forced into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A protest against bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, on April 8, 2021, after a young woman abducted for marriage ...

They call it ala kachuu, or "grab and run." In Kyrgyzstan, as many as 40% of ethnic Kyrgyz women are married after being kidnapped by the men who become their husbands, according to a local NGO.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research from Duke ...

Once again, Qishloq Ovozi is always happy to help the up-and-coming scholars in the field get their work out for people to see and this time we bring you Franco Galdini. Mr. Galdini writes about a ...