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[arne33]

Kabul - A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said on Tuesday.

The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common.

According to officials in northeastern Baghlan province, the in-laws kept Gul in a basement for six months, ripped her fingernails out, tortured her with hot irons and broke her fingers. Police freed her last week.

Gul was married about seven months ago. [when she was 14] Jawad Basharat, spokesperson for the provincial police chief in Baghlan, said an arrest warrant had been issued for her husband, who is serving in the Afghan army.

Despite much progress since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago, women's rights in Afghanistan remain a problem area in a country with a strict patriarchal culture

Under Taliban rule, girls' schools were banned and women could only leave the house accompanied by a male family member.

A UN report issued in November found that a 2009 law meant to protect Afghan women from a host of abusive practices, including rape, forced marriage and the trading of women to settle disputes was being undermined by spotty enforcement.

[jorian23]

Kabul - A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said on Tuesday.

The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common.

According to officials in northeastern Baghlan province, the in-laws kept Gul in a basement for six months, ripped her fingernails out, tortured her with hot irons and broke her fingers. Police freed her last week.

Gul was married about seven months ago. [when she was 14] Jawad Basharat, spokesperson for the provincial police chief in Baghlan, said an arrest warrant had been issued for her husband, who is serving in the Afghan army.

Despite much progress since the fall of the Taliban 10 years ago, women's rights in Afghanistan remain a problem area in a country with a strict patriarchal culture

Under Taliban rule, girls' schools were banned and women could only leave the house accompanied by a male family member.

A UN report issued in November found that a 2009 law meant to protect Afghan women from a host of abusive practices, including rape, forced marriage and the trading of women to settle disputes was being undermined by spotty enforcement.

Yes.

Corrupt, power-mad, evil clerics have tried to make everything about Islam either compulsory or forbidden, micro-managing the lives of all Muslims, in spite of the Quran: "There shall be no compulsion in the religion." Those clerics, and the Muslims who follow their dictates are clearly in violation of the Quran, perverting the religion that they pretend to follow.

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."
----VOLTAIRE

[torin7]

This is nothing but saudi culture and tradition, a place from where islam has originated. In saudi, women is not allowed to drive a car. You can see women and children begging at every corner of saudi. They have little repect for woman rights in saudi. However, these cases do not get disclosed in press as happening in afganistan. If originators are like that, you can imagine how their dogs will be.

[sceley]

That is not true Islam, and the people responsible are not true Muslims. The abuse you describe is a cultural aberration. Just like hanging little boys for retaliation and sawing a mans head off as punishment for brewing a crude beer. Along with growing opium for the heroin trade to support terrorist activities! Don't blame Allah(God), Islam or the Prophet for the criminal acts of a few sick people.

[nemausus36]

Yes, as sad as it may be, this is how they treat women. It's nothing about Muslims, and not all of them are that way, but in that country, women are equivalent to dirt. It is so unfair and unjust, but that's the way it is. I hate it SO much. Women are used as prostitutes and sand bags that their husbands can beat.

[ring]

Don't say anything against Muslims here. Atheists here prefer Islam to Christianity though Islam kills all gays, all non-believers and stones all women.

[bergh39]

in my place a christian women killed a christian husband so that she can live with her bf who is also christians.........does this make all Christians womens a......

no because black sheeps are there in every community and they are not representative of the religions

[teyo]

Yes, and what you don't know it that this girl was selled into marriage by her brother for 5000$. I actually read the full story.

[jasper]

No, that is how power drunk and retarded old world people live.
Those people are not muslims.

[mate]

Common in all cultures.