Human Rights Watch has reported that the number of women jailed in Afghanistan for moral crimes has been increasing. It has gone up nearly fifty percent in the past eighteen months, and many of the women have been under the age of eighteen. Such crimes include adultery and running away from home following rape and abuse. Recent laws seeking to reduce violence against women have been halted in the Afghan parliament. Researchers have said that an increase in these prosecutions is the result of extreme conservatives responding to the upcoming withdrawal of American troops in Afghanistan.
Meghan Steinbeiss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22614536
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