FORCED GIRL TO MARRY
Tadzhik Father Imprisoned (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, Sept. 5. A father who forced his daughter to marry a man she did not love has been sent to prison in Tadzhikistan, in Central Asia, a Soviet newspaper reported. In prison with the father, Sarindzhon Babadzhanov, is his son, Gafur, who helped him to throw his sister, Salomat, on to her “bridegroom’s bed,” according to “Komsomolaskaya Pravda,” the youth newspaper. Salomat tried to run away several times but her father caught her and when she fainted he carried her to her husband, who beat her until the neighbours called an ambulance to take her to hospital. Conniving Officials The secretary of the local Soviet registered the marriage between the couple although the girl declared her unwillingness. Even the chairman of the Soviet did not interfere, and when she cried “no” in the mosque “the servant of Allah let the word go past his ears.” The newspaper said the bridegroom was now on trial, but it did not say what happened to the local officials.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30539, 7 September 1964, Page 7
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