BISHKEK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Walking proudly down a catwalk, the lights and glamor seemed like a lifetime away from Elzat Kazakbaeva's nightmare ordeal five years ago when she was grabbed ...

In Kyrgyzstan, up to 15,000 women a year are victims of bride kidnapping, in which men abduct them and sometimes rape them as a way of forcing them into marriage — once they’ve spent the night with a ...

At least 12,000 women are still abducted and forced into marriage every year in Kyrgyzstan. But pressure is growing to finally end the medieval custom Aisuluu was returning home after spending the ...

Aizada Kanatbekova was abducted in broad daylight in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Two days later, the 27-year-old woman was found strangled to death outside the city. She’d been snatched by a group of people ...