A wedding video meant to show a lighthearted surprise moment has sparked arguments about whether some old traditions have had their time and become something uncomfortable in modern society. The clip ...

BRIDE KIDNAPPING documents in harrowing detail four such abductions, from the violent seizures on city streets and the tearful protests of the women, who are physically restrained and persuaded to ...

Inside a nomadic yurt pitched next to her family home in northern Kyrgyzstan a young woman’s female relatives sob loudly in a traditional ceremony marking 40 days since her death. “She was my youngest ...

Sports journalist Gulzhan Turdubayeva still cries when she thinks about the day she was kidnapped, taken to the home of an unknown man and told she would marry him. “He was quite short. Apart from ...