Online magazine exposes epidemic of violence against women in remote Russian republic where religious,tribal and secular laws do battleLet me disclose you a funny story,” says Svetlana Anokhina, and wearing a black T-shirt bearing the image of a woman in a red headscarf holding a finger to her lips.“The mother of someone I know phoned to say that her relatives occupy a problem: the daughter is in the final months of pregnancy and her father thinks he had better [murder her] to avoid shame. A thought suddenly struck my friend and he said: disclose him that the punishment for this crime has been increased. He won’t score off so easily’. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com