Sahar Gul who is just 15 year old was locked up in a toilet for 5 months. Some newspapers are saying she was found from the basement of her in-laws’ house; it was a dark, windowless room. Whatever it is, this poor girl was kept starved & abused all this while. The reason for the abuse is that she refused to be forced into prostitution by her husband & in-laws. She was married off to a30 year old man 7 months ago. All this while, her parents couldn’t contact her as she was married in the neighbouring province of Badakhshan, but she was brought to Baghlan.
Sahar was 14 year old at the time of her marriage. Under Afghan law, the earliest age for marriage for girls is 16. However, almost half of Afghan women are married when they are younger.
When the police rescued her, she was in a severe shock. She was suffering from some skin disease & she didn’t have proper clothes on.
The district police chief Fazel Rahman said "She was beaten, her fingernails were removed and her arm was broken."
Anyway, three women including Sahar's mother in-law had been arrested in connection with the case but as usual her husband had fled the area.
"The 15-year-old girl was brought to hospital with severe shock," said Pul-i-Khurmeri hospital chief Dr Gul Mohammad Wardak.
"She had injuries to her legs and face and the nails on her left had been removed."
In the video, as Sahar is taken to hospital in a wheelchair, she is asked who beat her. She names her father-in-law, her husband, her sister-in-law, her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law. The 15-year-old says her hair and her nails were pulled out by her mother-in-law.
She will take a hell of a long time to recover. Any abuse leaves a person scarred forever & here the victim has been both mentally & physically tortured for months.
According to Prostitution Procon, Afghan "prisons are full of women who have been convicted of 'fornication,' a charge that carries a penalty of from five to 15 years in jail." Had she said yes to the demands of her in-laws, this could have been Sahar’s future.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010. And according to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
Ever since Taliban had been ousted, the situation of women has become a little better but Afghan women still face high levels of domestic violence, abuse, and discrimination. I guess there is no doubt about that. The case of Sahar Gul clearly tells us that they don’t have any respect for women. They are being forced to go for prostitution & later on, they are the ones who reside in jail.
However, in a recent survey conducted by the U.K.-based organization Action Aid, 86 percent of Afghan women surveyed expressed concern that Taliban-style rule would return to Afghanistan.
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Afghan girl's horrifying abuse exposed by video
Afghan girl locked in toilet for five months
Sahar was 14 year old at the time of her marriage. Under Afghan law, the earliest age for marriage for girls is 16. However, almost half of Afghan women are married when they are younger.
When the police rescued her, she was in a severe shock. She was suffering from some skin disease & she didn’t have proper clothes on.
The district police chief Fazel Rahman said "She was beaten, her fingernails were removed and her arm was broken."
Anyway, three women including Sahar's mother in-law had been arrested in connection with the case but as usual her husband had fled the area.
"The 15-year-old girl was brought to hospital with severe shock," said Pul-i-Khurmeri hospital chief Dr Gul Mohammad Wardak.
"She had injuries to her legs and face and the nails on her left had been removed."
In the video, as Sahar is taken to hospital in a wheelchair, she is asked who beat her. She names her father-in-law, her husband, her sister-in-law, her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law. The 15-year-old says her hair and her nails were pulled out by her mother-in-law.
She will take a hell of a long time to recover. Any abuse leaves a person scarred forever & here the victim has been both mentally & physically tortured for months.
According to Prostitution Procon, Afghan "prisons are full of women who have been convicted of 'fornication,' a charge that carries a penalty of from five to 15 years in jail." Had she said yes to the demands of her in-laws, this could have been Sahar’s future.
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010. And according to figures in an Oxfam report in October, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
Ever since Taliban had been ousted, the situation of women has become a little better but Afghan women still face high levels of domestic violence, abuse, and discrimination. I guess there is no doubt about that. The case of Sahar Gul clearly tells us that they don’t have any respect for women. They are being forced to go for prostitution & later on, they are the ones who reside in jail.
However, in a recent survey conducted by the U.K.-based organization Action Aid, 86 percent of Afghan women surveyed expressed concern that Taliban-style rule would return to Afghanistan.
Source:
Afghan girl's horrifying abuse exposed by video
Afghan girl locked in toilet for five months
