A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering a young woman he planned to marry. The murder of 20-year-old Burulai Turdaaly Kyzy inside a provincial police station in May ...

The murder of 20-year-old Burulai Turdaaly Kyzy inside a provincial police station in May caused uproar in Kyrgyzstan, sparking street demonstrations and the dismissals of several police officers. Ms ...

LEMBAR, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fifteen minutes into their first date, Indonesian teenager Helma Yani received a marriage proposal from a boy she had just met. He spirited her away to ...

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 ...