SHARANA: When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail.
She soon discovered that she would not be serving the 18-month sentence in a government-run prison, but in the house of a tribal elder where she would work as an unpaid domestic servant, entirely under his control.
“I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave,” Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika.
Source: https://thehimalayantimes.com
Updated On: October 11, 2016