Most women at Kabul prison accused of moral crimes

[hue]

Source: Miami Herald (AP)

Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The 21-year-old Afghan woman said she fled her abusive husband only to be raped at gunpoint by a stranger who was supposed to help her.

The man then settled in front of a TV set, putting the gun on a table by his side. Choosing her moment, Mariam grabbed it and shot her assailant in the head, then turned the gun on herself.

"Three days later I woke up in the hospital," said Mariam, shyly removing a scarf from her head to reveal a partially shaved head and a long jagged scar that ran almost the length of her head where the bullet grazed her scalp.

From the hospital, Mariam was sent to a police station and from there to Afghanistan's main women's prison, Badam Bagh, which in Pashto means Almond Garden. She is one of 202 inmates in a jail mostly filled with women serving time for so-called "moral" crimes. Many had sought justice for domestic violence or tried to run away from an abusive situation...

Nowhere is this more evident than at the Badam Bagh prison, built by the Italian government six years ago to house female inmates from the Kabul area. The Associated Press recently was given rare access to the facility.







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[leftynyc]

1. This is what we're going

to be leaving the women of Afghanistan to. Not saying we should stay - just the reality.

[happyslug]

2. And will be the case, even if the US and NATO stays

Remember this is being done by our ALLIES, not the Taliban. As far as the Taliban is concerned this is a family matter to be resolved between the families of the Husband and the Wife. Thus the Taliban do NOT jail women, they leave it to their families. It is the US Allies that jail women for the Government of Kabul do NOT have the support of the people of Afghanistan and as such can NOT defer these cases to their families, thus the women must be jailed.

[leftynyc]

3. We already know

what their lives will be like under the taliban. It'll be like before we got there - women will not be in school, will not be able to work, will not be able to leave their homes without a male relative. Given the punishments for "morals" crimes under the taliban (stonings, etc.), perhaps they're safer in jail.

[Volaris]

4. "Moral Crimes". Sounds positively Republican of them, don't it?

I bet Blowjobs are outlawed there, too.

[freshwest]

5. Guilty at birth.