Afghan girl’s throat slit over refusal to wed
Thursday, 29 November 2012
British charity organization Oxfam says 87 percent of
Afghan women report having experienced physical and sexual violence or
forced marriage. (AFP)
Two men have been arrested for slitting the throat of a
15-year-old Afghan girl after her family refused a marriage proposal,
police said Thursday.
The girl was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.
“The two men attacked her and slit her throat with a knife,” he said. “They were arrested and are in police custody.”
Hussaini said one of the suspects had proposed marriage to the girl but her family had rejected the offer.
The girl was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.
“The two men attacked her and slit her throat with a knife,” he said. “They were arrested and are in police custody.”
Hussaini said one of the suspects had proposed marriage to the girl but her family had rejected the offer.
Info-graphic: Abuse against Afghan women (Design by Farwa Rizwan/ Al Arabiya English)
Extreme violence against women and
girls remains a major problem in the conservative Muslim nation more
than a decade after U.S.-led troops brought down the notoriously brutal
Taliban Islamist regime.
According to figures by British charity organization Oxfam, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
Last month a 20-year-old woman was beheaded by her husband’s family in the western province of Herat after she refused to become a prostitute, police said. Four people were arrested over the brutal killing.
And in September, five people were arrested over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair.
The girl was whipped 100 times in front of village elders and family members in central Ghazni province. Her alleged boyfriend was fined.
Unmarried girls are often confined to the home and forbidden from maintaining any contact with men outside the immediate family.
According to figures by British charity organization Oxfam, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.
Last month a 20-year-old woman was beheaded by her husband’s family in the western province of Herat after she refused to become a prostitute, police said. Four people were arrested over the brutal killing.
And in September, five people were arrested over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair.
The girl was whipped 100 times in front of village elders and family members in central Ghazni province. Her alleged boyfriend was fined.
Unmarried girls are often confined to the home and forbidden from maintaining any contact with men outside the immediate family.
Labels: Afghanistan, Crime, Human Rights, Islamism, Sexism, Traditions
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