Afghan Child Bride Horrifically Abused By Husband and Inlaws

A video given to the BBC shows the extent of the injuries suffered by a 15 year-old Afghan child bride who was locked up and tortured by her husband.

The girl was left starving after being detained by him and his family for several months.

The case came to light this week when police rescued the teenager, Sahar Gul, who had been locked up in the basement of her in-laws' house.

Police say that she had had her nails and clumps of hair pulled out.

In addition they say she had chunks of flesh cut out with pliers.

Sahar Gul was married off to a 30-year-old man around seven months ago, when she was just 14 years old. Her parents contacted police after not being able to see her for several months.

She was rescued from a dark, windowless room in her in-laws' house, according to Baghlan police official Jawid Basharat.

In the video, as Sahar is taken to hospital in a wheelchair, she is asked who beat her. She names her father-in-law, her husband, her sister-in-law, her brother-in-law and her mother-in-law. The 15-year-old says her hair and her nails were pulled out by her mother-in-law.

The authorities in the northern Baghlan province said they were aware of reports that the girl was tortured after she refused to be forced into prostitution, but could not confirm that was the case.

Rahima Zarifi, director of the Women's Affairs Department in Baghlan, said Sahar had been severely tortured, both physically and mentally, and that the psychological scars were likely to endure.

The police have managed to arrest Sahar's in-laws, but her husband had already fled.

Women in many parts of Afghanistan continue to suffer domestic abuse, often at the hands of their own family or in-laws.

Human rights activists worry that the plight of many women here, especially in rural areas, is being sidelined as the international community focuses on its military drawdown, and puts less emphasis and less pressure on the Afghan authorities over human rights.

In the second quarter of this year alone, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission registered 1,026 cases of violence against women, compared with a total last year of 2,700.

Those are only the cases that come to light.

Under Afghan law, the earliest age for marriage for girls is 16. However, almost half of Afghan women are married when they are younger.

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[MsSbaker93]

you say islam is evil and Allah is evil too, cuz of what u see on the news. BIASED news. just cuz its shown on TV. well if this is true, then wont christians be the same? you cant judge by the religion, its by the person's character. and btw. the QURAN does not keep women down, it clearly says that women and men are equal, if not more so because women go thru much more pain and shit. keep ur facts straight man, it aint cool for hating on a religion that is portrayed a certain way on BIASED news.

[YouCruising]

@MsSbaker93

A womans testimony is worth HALF of a mans testimony. Most women in Afghan prisons are there for modesty crimes (such as being raped). Women cannot drive in several sharia compliant countries. Men get custody of the children 100% of the time in islam, etc, etc.

Yep, you're right. islams quranic rulings are nothing but fair.

p.s. I didn't even mention that the hypocrite homo pedophile mohammad had more than 12 wives, but allowed the MEN only 4 (and the women 1).

[gr33n3ye5]

Islam has nothing to do with this, Islam is a beautiful religion...both women and men are equal

we believe in God and all the prophets Moses, Joseph, Jesus, etc along with our last prophet Mohammed. All these extremist attacks done in the name of Islam are all wrong.. those who do this will burn in hell.

[YouCruising]

@gr33n3ye5

This has everything to do with islam. You're not fooling anyone. Thousands upon thousands of stories are documented showing muslims killing their own family members (honor killings), throwing acid in their face, beating them, etc. All in the name of allah (satan).

U can try to deflect the blame all you want, and in that call God (Yeshua), a simple prophet. What's MOST despicable is when you call the false pedophile prophet (desciple of satan), mohammad, a prophet.

[darktigerx]

@YouCruising You know nothing about the Islam, take a religion course..Islam is truly a beautiful religion, stop believing everything you see on tv and use some of those critical thinking skills

[YouCruising]

@darktigerx

"Stop believing everything see on tv ... use some of those critical thinking skills."

Listen little mo, I don't get my information from tv. I have hundreds of videos proving my point and friends with hundreds more proving islam is satanic. I also know how to read, unlike most of the islamic world, not to mention the false pedophile prophet mohammad.

islam is NOT a religion. In islam there is no separation of faith and government. allah IS satan and EVIL!

[LadyScorpio39]

@YouCruising

well said!!! so true!!

[xXxReptilex]

@LadyScorpio39 so is half of the world... sad but true

[xXxReptilex]

@YouCruising o -0... ok now can you say that again... this time slower...

[LadyScorpio39]

ISLAM is the religion of demons! cowardly, child molesting demons!!!!!!