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In 2014, Indian national Zubi Zaidi was married off in a traditional, arranged marriage setting. At the age of 26, she was told that her husband was almost 12 years her senior, and she was to move from Lucknow in India to Abu Dhabi.
"Again, I was told I was going to live with my husband, his parents and some extended family members. My family was also told he has a US citizenship," Zaidi told Khaleej Times.
However, the sequence of events that unfolded after her marriage led Zaidi to start a movement with almost 200 Indian women who'd suffered domestic violence from NRI husbands and their families.
Zaidi found that her husband had lied about his age, and even had a child from a former marriage. "I realised things were going amiss in the marriage after they demanded huge sums of money to start a crawfish business in the US. I refused to give into their demands, and that is when the abuse began," she added.
After which, she suffered several forms of emotional, physical and psychological abuse, which also included an incident where Zaidi was locked up in their Khalifa City apartment for three days. After escaping from there, she returned home to Lucknow only to find a divorce notice waiting for her.
Now, 30-year-old Zaidi is an advocate, and is leading a movement in India with other women who have faced a similar fate. Under the banner of Soch Foundation, an NGO in India, Zaidi has created a registry of 200 women who've suffered abuse from NRI husbands. "The list is fast growing because women are coming forward and the Indian government is cracking down on these wrong-doers," she added.
Sreedhar (name withheld to protect identity), father of a 27-year-old daughter who was abandoned in New Zealand, said: "I worked my entire life in the UAE to provide her with good education and get her married to a good family. We were in shock when we found that our daughter was left behind by her husband."
The now 60-year-old man had to rush to Auckland to get his daughter, who was left behind with no means to fend herself. The mechanical engineer added: "The issue with cases like these is that no parent is prepared for such a trauma. So, many times we don't know whom to approach and where to go."
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