Posted on 01/04/2012 1:10:30 PM PST by EBH
KABUL, Afghanistan — 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 Monday.
Sahar Gul's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi.
The case has shocked Afghanistan, though rights activists say serious abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common. President Hamid Karzai has said that whoever used violence against Gul will be punished.
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.
The public health and women's affairs ministers visited Gul, who is now in a Kabul hospital.
She was freed from a basement at her husband's home last week after her uncle called the local police.
"It is a violent act that is unacceptable in the 21st century," Sediqi told reporters. "We are thankful of Sahar Gul's uncle."
He added that "if the police had not arrived in time she may have died."
He did not provide details on the treatment she would seek in India. But many Afghans with serious injuries or illnesses prefer to go to India or Pakistan for care because of poor medical services in Afghanistan.
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Thanks AP... but isn't prostitution a liberal idea?
[... serious abuses against women and girls
in the conservative society are common ...]
I recognize the intent of this statement, but
blaming conservatism for brutality against women
is like blaming astrology for a sunburn.
WOW!! Same message at the exact same posting time!!
Too bad we couldn't really hit your actual reset button on this train wreck of a country a decade ago.
How dare she. Any self respecting Afghan girl should aspire to be a prostitute, especially when it will please the in-laws. /s
Good grief. Shoot the whole damn bunch of them...
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Vaporization may be the only answer.
“abuses against women and girls in the conservative society are common.”
as usual, a gross misuse of the word “conservative.”
Great minds FReep alike. LOL!
Some Islamists (political Islam, sharia law advocates) are protesting that it is no more that way.. but that brings up taqiyya . . . .
Round and round goes Islamism (political Islam, sharia law ).
“...conservative society...” Man, talk about abuse of the language!
//I think that Islamists (political Islam, sharia law advocates) consider prostitution a temporary marriage.. seriously.//
H’mm. If so, then what is rape? and why does it end up with the (I’m not gonna call it honor) killing of the VICTIM?
Update, w/photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083744/Sahar-Gul-Tortured-Afghan-child-bride-wants-husband-family-jailed.html
Why did this end up in the backroom instead of in news?
It surprised me -- and I felt good about it -- that the family of the girl saved her. I would have expected them wanting to kill her for disobeying her husband.
So not every Muslim there is an Islamist (political Islam, sharia law advocate).
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