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[KavkazUzel] Activists held a rally in front of the Georgian Parliament building in Tbilisi. They demanded an investigation into the inaction of the management of the school where the 14-year-old girl, who was killed by her partner, studied.
| Romeo and Juliet reprise? |
As the Caucasian Knot reported, a 14-year-old girl was killed in the village of Lambalo; on October 10, Georgian police reported that an adult man, who was her partner, had been detained.
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Georgian Ombudsman Levan Ioseliani, commenting on the incident, said that the authorities are not doing enough to address the problem of child and forced marriages in the country.
According to the mother of the deceased, her daughter was kidnapped two months ago for the purpose of marriage, and the 27-year-old man threatened to kill the family if they wanted to take her, although the girl herself did not want to get married. On October 12, it became known that the police had detained the uncle of the murdered girl on charges of forcing a minor into marriage and concealing information about the crime.
For a number of regions of Georgia, the problem of early and forced marriage is relevant. In September 2022, a local resident was detained in the Dmanisi region for forcing his 20-year-old daughter to marry against her will, which is why she tried to commit suicide.
In November 2019, after the abduction of a 15-year-old girl, Georgian NGOs also proposed introducing programs in schools to prevent early marriages. It is necessary to raise the level of awareness about early marriage among schoolchildren, said the head of the NGO "Association of Young Lawyers" Sulkhan Saladze.
Today, activists, shocked by the murder of a girl, held a rally on Rustaveli Avenue. The protesters stood silently with posters “A child is not a wife”, “The school killed Aitaj, arrest the school director,” a “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reported from the scene.
| What about the husband, who clearly knew exactly what he was doing? And whoever conducted the wedding, assuming the thing was done according to legal forms? |
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