Raped Afghan woman freed without condition of marrying attacker: Lawyer (Afghanistan)

New Kerala ^ | 12/03/11

[Libloather]

Raped Afghan woman freed without condition of marrying attacker: Lawyer

Kabul, Dec 3 : An Afghan women who was raped by her husband's cousin and was jailed for adultery has been set free without being pressurized to marry her attacker, according to her lawyer.

According to Kimberly Motley, Gulnaz's lawyer said that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai office personally clarified that the women does not have to marry the man who attacked her honour in 2009.

Kimberly said that 21-year-old Gulnaz would be released with no pre-conditions and would then be free to marry whomever she chooses.

"She doesn't have plans for the future, she just wants to get out [of prison]," the BBC quoted Kimberly, as saying.

She added that Gulnaz had a "safe place" to go after her expected release.

Gulnaz was just 19-year old when she was convicted by a court for adultery in 2009 and was sentenced to serve 12-years in prison, even though she tried to prevent the attack.

Since than she is in Kabul's Badam Bagh Jail, serving out her sentence with her rapist's child.

The case has drawn international attention to the plight of many Afghan women ten years after the overthrow of the Taliban.

Human rights groups have pointed out that hundreds of women in Afghan jails are victims of rape or domestic violence.

[Sherman Logan]

I am somewhat confused about how an unmarried woman can be convicted of adultery.

Fornication, sex without being married, sure. But adultery? Even for sharia that seems awfully weird.

I wonder if there’s a translation issue, with the press misreporting the facts.

I would also like to point out that Mo (PBUH) put in place in the Koran provisions that made it extremely difficult to convict a woman of adultery. Had to have four adult male Muslims as eyewitnesses to the act itself, something which is pretty obviously unlikely to happen very often.

This was based on an occasion when one of Mo’s favorite wives was lost in the desert overnight with a handsome young soldier. Some of Mo’s peeps suggested he should have her killed on suspicion. So Allah conveniently came up with the revelation I mentioned above.

I’ve never been able to find a coherent explanation of how this women-protective measure in the Koran itself morphed into woman-destructive measures like the Afghan law.

[Sherman Logan]

I am somewhat confused about how an unmarried woman can be convicted of adultery.

Fornication, sex without being married, sure. But adultery? Even for sharia that seems awfully weird.

I wonder if there’s a translation issue, with the press misreporting the facts.

I would also like to point out that Mo (PBUH) put in place in the Koran provisions that made it extremely difficult to convict a woman of adultery. Had to have four adult male Muslims as eyewitnesses to the act itself, something which is pretty obviously unlikely to happen very often.

This was based on an occasion when one of Mo’s favorite wives was lost in the desert overnight with a handsome young soldier. Some of Mo’s peeps suggested he should have her killed on suspicion. So Allah conveniently came up with the revelation I mentioned above.

I’ve never been able to find a coherent explanation of how this women-protective measure in the Koran itself morphed into woman-destructive measures like the Afghan law.

[Sherman Logan]

I am somewhat confused about how an unmarried woman can be convicted of adultery.

Fornication, sex without being married, sure. But adultery? Even for sharia that seems awfully weird.

I wonder if there’s a translation issue, with the press misreporting the facts.

I would also like to point out that Mo (PBUH) put in place in the Koran provisions that made it extremely difficult to convict a woman of adultery. Had to have four adult male Muslims as eyewitnesses to the act itself, something which is pretty obviously unlikely to happen very often.

This was based on an occasion when one of Mo’s favorite wives was lost in the desert overnight with a handsome young soldier. Some of Mo’s peeps suggested he should have her killed on suspicion. So Allah conveniently came up with the revelation I mentioned above.

I’ve never been able to find a coherent explanation of how this women-protective measure in the Koran itself morphed into woman-destructive measures like the Afghan law.

[Sherman Logan]

Sorry about the triple post. Kept saying it wasn’t connecting.

[notatard?]

I am well aware it is a type of government - I am just not sure why our former president refused to recognize it as such and wanted us all to embrace our muslim brothers. I have a pretty good idea why the current president has his head up his...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Libloather.

...said that 21-year-old Gulnaz would be released with no pre-conditions and would then be free to marry whomever she chooses... Gulnaz was just 19... was convicted by a court for adultery in 2009 and was sentenced to serve 12-years in prison... [has spent two years] serving out her sentence with her rapist's child.

[Thank You Rush]

“”It must have lost something in translation. She was raped by her husband’s cousin yet she’s free to marry whomever she wishes??””

Lost me there too. I believe those men (??) can have several wives but I didn’t know the women could have more than one husband.

[Thank You Rush]

“”serving out her sentence with her rapist’s child......
Did anyone else pick up on this little nugget?””

Not me - I was still trying to figure out how she could get married to her attacker when it was her husband’s cousin who raped her..

[rmlew]

Like I said many times: Islam is Satans answer to Judiasm and Christianity. Mohammed was not born in the year 570 AD but 666 AD. They just changed it so more people would accept Islam.

That's silly. By 666, the Rashidun Caliphate had conquered the Levant and Egypt and Carthage from the Byzantines. The Byzantines were fighting for their lives in Anatolia and most of the Persian empire fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. The Umayyad Caliphate (established 661) were expanding into the remains of the Kok Turkut in central Asia. In the Caucuses, they were 16 years into the first Arab-Khazar war over the caucuses.