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The ‘Bride Price’ Story that Got China Talking

A story shared on Weibo – about a girl forced to have an abortion when her boyfriend couldn’t pay her family to marry her - has raised the issue of ‘bride price’ payments in China

A story shared on Weibo, about a girl forced to have an abortion when her boyfriend could not pay her family to marry her, has raised the issue of ‘bride price’ payments in China.

That follows our first story about Ese, a Nigerian girl who was abducted last August, but returned to her family this week thanks in part to a hashtag campaign - ‘#FreeEse’.

(Photo: A bride in her wedding dress holding bunch of flowers. Credit: Wang Zhao/Getty Images)

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