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GIRL Brutally TORTURED By Family For REFUSING To Become A PROSTITUTE

KABUL – A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials said Saturday.

Sahar Gul was in critical condition when she was rescued from a house in northern Baghlan province last week, after her neighbours reported hearing Gul crying and moaning in pain.

According to police in Baghlan, her in-laws pulled out her nails and hair, and locked her in a dark basement bathroom for about five months, with barely enough food and water to survive.

“She was married seven months ago, and was originally from Badakhshan province. Her in-laws tried to force her into prostitution to earn money,” Rahima Zarifi, head of women’s affairs in Baghlan told Reuters.

Gul is covered in scars and bruises, with one eye still swollen shut six days after her rescue. She is being treated in a government hospital in Kabul, but her recovery could take weeks and she may have to be sent to India, doctors said.

“This is one of the worst cases of violence against Afghan women. The perpetrators must be punished so others learn a lesson,” health minister Suraya Dalil told journalists after visiting Gul Saturday with the women’s affairs minister.

Mohammad Zia, a senior police official in Baghlan who helped rescue the girl, said Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been detained, but her husband and father-in-law had escaped.

“We have launched a serious hunt to get her husband and the others involved,” Zia told Reuters via phone from Baghlan.

Despite progress in women’s rights and freedom since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago, women throughout the country are still at risk of abduction, rape, forced marriage and being traded as commodity.

However it can be hard for women to escape violent situations at home, because of huge social and sometimes legal pressure to stay in marriages.

Running away from an abusive husband or a forced marriage are considered “moral crimes,” for which women are currently imprisoned in Afghanistan.

Some rape victims have also been imprisoned, because sex outside marriage, even when the woman is forced, is considered adultery, another “moral crime.”
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15 Responses to GIRL Brutally TORTURED By Family For REFUSING To Become A PROSTITUTE

  1. Miss G Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Thank U Lord 4 having made a zambian, in a peaceful and christain nation were i have freedom of choice, association etc and my rights are respectd to a very large extent. THANK YOU LORD,and pliz help those poor lost souls 2 find Your light, amen

  2. MUNYELO PWETE! Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 9:43 am

    TUFYAKWAA! TUFYAKWA AGAIN!!!!

  3. Sten kelly Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 9:47 am

    afghanstan….chachilama..
    evry week thr z a story about women involvd in sexual violence.

  4. Sibbuku Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 10:15 am

    I have no interest commenting on foreign news when things in my own county are even getting worse.

  5. bettef half Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Omg poor girl.. :( this is soo sad mahn..

  6. Blaisb Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 11:36 am

    FEED US ON ZED NEWS PLS

  7. Nkwizuka Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    Too bad…da inlaw family shud truely answer for that nd face the law for attemptd murder.may the almighty father bless that girl

  8. uko Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    @Nkwizuka ka gelo kamu Muslim so your God will just push her instead.

  9. Mo taim Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Too bad.This makes very sad reading.

  10. Malen Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    Very very bad news indeed,may her inlaws face the law,and God bless her.

  11. Jhon Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 4:10 pm

    Very bad news.

  12. REAL Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    GOD will richly bles her for refutin to do evil. very few people can do that.

  13. Akuti me! Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    News is news, whether foreign or local foreign. We can still learn from it. Thanks Tumfweko I hope the perpetrators face the law

  14. Matako Mpelolubilo Reply

    January 2, 2012 at 9:39 pm

    I feel for the girl, the inlwas and ****** husband are not normal, they shud be taken to afghan chinama hospital

  15. BUFYULULU Reply

    January 8, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Too bad gal just divorce that f**kin husband of yours.shit bizhiu

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