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Chechen Leader Calls for Wives to Stop Using WhatsApp

posted by CoolHand on Friday May 22 2015, @03:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the whats-dat-whatsapp dept.

takyon writes:

Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has urged men to stop their wives from using WhatsApp after anger over a police chief's forced marriage to a 17-year-old spread on the messaging service:

"Lock them in, do not let them go out, then they will not post anything," Ramzan Kadyrov was quoted as saying. Mr Kadyrov had earlier backed a police chief's marriage to a 17-year-old, even though he was already married, in apparent violation of Russian laws. His chief of staff has since proposed legalising polygamy in Chechnya.

Mr Kadyrov, an authoritarian leader and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has in recent years outlawed the abduction of brides and underage marriage. He is also thought to be in favour of polygamy. His top aide Magomed Daudov said: "It all has to be in keeping with Sharia: But if a man can support more than one wife, then why not?"

Before Saturday's ceremony, local media reported that police chief Nazhud Guchigov, 47, had prevented Kheda Goylabiyeva from leaving her home and threatened her family with reprisals if they did not hand her over.

Mr Kadyrov denounced discussion of the marriage on WhatsApp in comments broadcast on local state-run TV. "Stop. Behave like Chechens," he was reported as saying. "The family honour is the most important thing. Do not write such things. Men, do take your women out of WhatsApp." Last week he took to his Instagram account to criticise Russian media coverage of the marriage as "this fuss ordered by some liberals". "The girl's parents gave their blessing to this marriage," he claimed, arguing that reports to the contrary were filled with lies.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @11:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 22 2015, @11:31PM (#186708)

    > having a woman take at least half your shit in a divorce and sue for alimony for no fucking reason

    Absolutely false. A divorcing spouse is only deserving of 50% of the assets acquired during the marriage. Anything that existed before the marriage is off-limits. But you are right, the reason isn't for fucking, it is for being a partnership where each spouse supports the other in life. That is how partnerships work.