Residents of Chechnya talked about the pressure on the families of girls at marriage

Wide lighting in the media in the media forced to marry a 17-year-old girl in Chechnya to marry the head of the ROVD of the Nozha-Yurt district allowed local residents to interrupt the silence and talk about numerous violations of the rights of young women in the republic.

“In recent years, unequal marriages in Chechnya, however, in recent years in the republic there are systematically occur when officials or senior security officials use various levers of pressure on the families of young girls,” the “Caucasian Knot,” published on May 11 says.

A resident of the Nozha-Yurt district Hava said that young girls are easy to persuade to go out for an elderly person. They are told that the life and well -being of loved ones will depend on their solution, Hava says. “The fact that the girl’s life breaks, that sooner or later she will have to return home, no one thinks,” the agency’s interlocutor notes.

Another local resident named Petimat claims that girls in Chechnya are often forcibly married, and when they bother husbands, they return home. “The most nasty thing, it seems to me that such people clothed by the authorities use who they can and what can be forced to agree to this marriage,” she said.

According to Petimat, usually threats are in such situations, but if this does not work, then officials connect famous elders, respected people who meet the elders from the girl’s family, and everything is decided without taking into account her opinions. “Before, before making a girl to marry, we watched from us from which family the groom, how people respond to them, and now they think more and more about money. And this is scary,” she said.

Residents of Chechnya talked about the pressure on the families of girls when marriage after a resonant case with the head of the ROVD of the Nozha-Yurt district of the Chechen Republic. Public attention to this story was attracted by the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina. According to the journalist, the security officer threatened the girl’s family with reprisals, and so that the bride did not escape, put the checkpoints at the entrances to the village where she lives.

Later, the publication reported that the wedding was scheduled for May 10, and as a guest, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was waiting for a marriage for a marriage. At the same time, the leader of the republic said that he sent his attorney to find out whether the girl agreed to get married. "And her mother said that the girl agrees!" - claimed Kadyrov.

On the air of the Radio Says Moscow, the Commissioner for the Rights of Children in the Chechen Republic, Khamzat Hirahmatov, said on May 11 that he had no confirmation of the fact of issuing a minor. In his opinion, it was an information order against the head of the police department.

In addition, the children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said that he also did not find confirmation of violation of the rights of a minor girl in Chechnya. He noted that in the case of the “Chechen bride” a number of facts were distorted, incorrect names and biographical data were named.

As a result, spokeswoman for the head of the Chechen Republic Alvi Karimov on the air of the Kommersant FM radio station denied information about the wedding of a minor with the 57-year head of the police department. “There was no wedding between this girl and this person in the Chechen Republic. There is no subject of conversation. An adult girl who has already finished school has the right to get married, and anything, but she doesn’t say that I am going out or I don’t go out,” Karimov said .