A man has been charged with driving his wife to suicide over claims he
allegedly forced her to take repeated virginity tests then refused to
believe the results and demanded a second bride.
Rajabbi Khurshed, 18, took a lethal dose of vinegar 40 days after her
arranged marriage to 24-year-old Zafar Pirov, in Tajikistan.
Ms Khurshed's devastated family say Pirov demanded a second bride as he
refused to believe she was virgin - despite numerous humiliating
virginity tests.
Despite her passing a government-required prenuptial exam - including a
virginity test - Pirov admits he took his bride for a further two tests,
both of which she passed and both of which he did not believe, before
casting her out.
Khurshed's family who arranged the coupling told Radio Free Europe
their daughter told them on her deathbed that she had felt pressured to
accept Pirov's demands for a second wife and 'couldn't take it any
longer'.
But Pirov - who faces eight years in jail if found guilty of driving
Kurshed to suicide - claimed: "My wife gave me a written statement that
she allows me to get a second wife because she wasn't a virgin when we
got married."
Kurshed's mother Fazila Mirzoeva said her daughter had been a victim of
"slander and violence" and she had never had a boyfriend or had sex with
anyone.
She also said she the teen had dropped out of school to help care for her two disabled brothers.
Mrs Mirzoeva, from the village of Chorbogh, has now appealed to the country's president, Emomali Rahmon, for help.
For women virginity tests before marriages are common in Tajikistan, where casual sex is deemed socially unacceptable.
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