VIOLENCE: “You Dress According to Their Rules” - Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women

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Summary: This report documents acts of violence, harassment, and threats against women in Chechnya to intimidate them into wearing a headscarf or dressing more “modestly,” in long skirts and sleeves to cover their limbs. The documented attacks by unidentified men believed to be law enforcement officials took place from June through September 2010 in the center of Grozny, the Chechen capital. pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/chechnya0311webwcover.pdf

Organisation: 
Human Rights Watch
Articles: 
Article 13: Freedom of expression
Article 37: Torture and deprivation of liberty
Article 14: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Web: 
http://www.hrw.org/node/97049
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