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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Adeshola Ore Community affairs reporter

Watched, scared and trapped in an Australian visa nightmare, Kiran is one of India’s ‘abandoned brides’

close up on hands of a married Indian couple
The Queensland-based Bangle Foundation, which has supported Kiran, says being on a temporary visa adds to many south Asian women’s vulnerability. Photograph: Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images

Kiran’s* husband was more than 10,000km away from the home she shared with her in-laws in a village in northern India. But despite the vast distance, he watched her constantly through cameras which beamed into a screen in his Brisbane home.

“He would say: ‘I can always see what you do’,” she recalls through an interpreter.

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