Recognition of Women Husband Forced Into Prostitution | Trifter
Afghanistan teenage girls aged 15 years who was tortured for months in marriage matchmaking results finally go to vote for the first time since rescued last week. She said she hoped her husband and family of her husband sent to prison for having committed torture against him.
When speaking in an interview from a hospital in Kabul, as reported by the Daily Mail, Sunday, Gul blamed the husband, in-laws, as well as the sister of her husband for the suffering they experienced. “I want them in prison,” he said. “They induce me with an electric shock …. They beat me with cables and tortured me.”
According to the
Associated Press, Gul is now being treated for a wound between the fingers and nails torn that off. Doctors who treat Gul, Feriba Omarzada, said Gul began to recover, but still traumatized. Gul, suffered mental and physical as well as the treatment takes a few weeks.
Police in Baghlan province, Gul saved locations, said the law confining and torturing girl after Gul refused to work as sex workers. In-law and brother-in-law had been arrested. However, they denied committing crimes. Afghan authorities have issued an arrest warrant for her husband, who served in the Afghan army.
The story rocked the Afghan Gul and trigger the urge to immediately put an end to child marriages. Legal marriage age of 16 years in
Afghanistan, but UN agencies, UN Women, estimates that half the girls in the country was forced to marry before the age of 15 years. Sahar Gul in critical condition when rescued from a house in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan last week. Police said Gul-law repeal nails and hair, and locked him in the bathroom a dark basement for about five months. He was only given food and water in a very limited amount. Her husband’s family also burned her with
cigarettes and mencungkili wound with forceps.
Local media on Saturday, reporting, security chief northern Baghlan province, Gen. Syed Hussaini Zamanuddin revealed, father-in-law, Mohammad Aman, had been arrested with the help of residents in the town of Pul-e-Khumri in the north of the country. General Hussaini
adds, Mohammad Aman has been submitted to the
provincial attorney general and the Afghan security forces are trying to find her husband. Safe denied allegations that he tortured Gul. He said the girl was suffering from psychiatric disorders.
Rahima Zarifi,
head of Baghlan women affairs, told Reuters
news agency said, “He (Gul) married seven months ago, and came from Badakhshan province. In-law tries to force him to be sex workers to get their money.”
Gul scarred and bruised. Six days after she was rescued, one eye is still swollen. He was treated at a government hospital in Kabul, but according to the doctors, he may be sent to India.
“This is one of the worst cases of violence against women in Afghanistan. The perpetrators should be punished so that others can get a lesson from the case,” said health minister Suraya Dalil told reporters after visiting with the women’s affairs minister Gul on Saturday.
Mohammad Zia, a senior police official in Baghlan, which helped rescue the girl, said Gul’s mother-in-law and sister-in-law have been arrested, but her husband had fled. “We have launched a serious hunt to catch her husband and other people involved,” said Zia.
Although there is progress in the field of rights and freedoms of women since the Taliban were toppled 10 years ago, women across Afghanistan still faces the risk of kidnapping, rape, forced marriage, and traded as a commodity. In addition, the country’s difficult for women to avoid situations of domestic violence because of social pressures and occasionally the law to stay in the marriage.
In that country, fleeing from abusive husbands or forced marriages are also considered “moral evil”. In Afghanistan, women could go to jail if you dare do that. A number of women victims of rape has been jailed because they are having sex outside of marriage even though the woman was coerced. Such a relationship was still regarded as adultery, a “moral evil”.
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