Jailed Afghan rape victim freed but ‘to marry attacker’

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Poll says Afghanistan ‘most dangerous’ for women Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13773274

BBC News – Jailed Afghan rape victim freed but ‘to marry attacker’. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned a rape victim who was jailed for adultery, after she apparently agreed to marry her attacker. The woman, named as Gulnaz, gave birth in prison to a daughter who has been kept in jail with her. Human rights groups say hundreds of women in Afghan jails are victims of rape or domestic violence.  Earlier this month, Gulnaz said that after she was raped she was charged with adultery. ”At first my sentence was two years,” she said. “When I appealed it became 12 years. I didn’t do anything. Why should I be sentenced for so long?” The most recent appeal saw her sentence reduced to three years.

Half of Afghanistan’s women prisoners are inmates for “zina” or moral crimes. The BBC’s Bilal Sarwary says recent cases of violence against women are embarrassing for the Afghan government. Many Afghan women rights activists say there must be an end to the culture of impunity and police must punish all those behind violence against women, he adds.

This is an example of what Sharia law is the moral code and religious law of Islam. This type of law when implemented in countries has demonstrated a sever restriction on women rights and their ability to live normal equal lives with their male counterparts. Beatings, child marriages and executions of women for adultery are common.  It is something countries with high Muslim immigrants face when dealing with their courts. The fact that this woman now is freed from jail only with a Presidential pardon after agreeing to marry her rapist is a shame. Also her sentence of two years increased to 10 for fighting the sentence is another shame. I’m totally against this type of barbaric law system, even Western society with common Christian roots has turned away from such barbaric treatment of women although they were common practice within the text of the bible.