In Russia, women's heads, wrists, legs, and mostly their whole body must be covered up before going into public. And when dozens of Chechen women were attacked with paintballs by young men, some people were angered, while some people applauded the young men. "In June 2010, dozens of women were targeted in paintball attacks for not donning headscarves or because their skirts or sleeves were not long enough." President Ramzan Kadyrov said that what the paintballers did was admirable, and that if the women came out without headscarves again, they could face more dangerous consequences. One woman was so scared from having a gun pointed in her face that she said she will never leave the house without 'appropriate' clothing again. I think it's wrong to leave these women so scarred from what happened that they won't leave their houses because they didn't cover their heads. Since President Kadyrov put an edict into place saying that women without headscarves could not enter state buildings, a campaign limiting Chechen women's freedoms has been gaining strength, where you'd think it would do the opposite..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12705300
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