A journalist has left the southern Russian republic of Chechnya amid fears for her safety, after writing that a teenage girl was being forced to marry a police commander much older than her.
Elena Milashina had written that the local police head, Nazhud Guchigov, had threatened reprisals against the girl’s family if she was not handed over.
The police commander was also said to be married to another woman.
Ms Milashina’s newspaper said she fled after her safety was threatened.
That’s an interesting style of “police head.” Sounds more like a crime boss.
… Read the restChechnya’s authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a diehard loyalist of President Vladimir Putin, has in recent years outlawed the abduction of brides and underage marriage.
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