Afghan women still in chains under Karzai

[radwriter0555]

(Gosh, it's going well in afghanistan, don't you think?)

Kabul’s central jail holds female prisoners whose only ‘crime’ is their refusal to be second-class citizens. Ramita Navai reports



Sharifa Daadekhoda’s two-year-old daughter, Krishma, has never seen the outside world. She was born in prison and she’ll be at least three when she is released. Her mother’s crime? Running away from home. Sharifa was 12 years old when she was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. He immediately began prostituting her, but Sharifa was too ashamed to tell her family and he would beat her if she complained.

After three years she gained enough confidence to run away but was caught 15 minutes from her parent’s house by the Taliban. As a woman travelling on her own, unaccompanied by a male family member, she was committing a crime. When the Taliban realised she was also fleeing her husband she was instantly imprisoned. She was released after six months but forced to return to her husband.

A year later she fled and was caught again, receiving a longer sentence – only this time her captors had been installed by the American-led coalition. In President Hamid Karzai’s Afghanistan, women are still imprisoned for running away from home.

http://www.sundayherald.com/47282

[AngelAsuka]

1. This is 'Freedom on the March'®©™

Oh, how well we do everything. :argh:

~~AA~~

[ET Awful]

2. I first heard about this last night on Randi's show

I figured it had already been posted, so didn't do it last night.

Nice to see freedom spreading though isn't it?

[msgadget]

3. But they VOTED,

which makes it okay.

[skylarmae]

4. is there an age limit on marriage at all?

12 years old and forced to marry...? This in itself doesn't seem too civilized, let alone forced to marry and be a whore .....

[BiggJawn]

5. The mistake...

...is in the asumption that Karzai runs ANYTHING outside of Downtown Kabul. Same Circus, Different Clown.

"Your every wish is my command
All you gotta do is wiggle your little hand
I'm your puppet, I'm your puppet"