Sahar Gul Tortured

The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations. The plight of 15-year-old Sahar Gul captivated the nation and set off a storm of international condemnation when it came to light in late December. Gul's hus...

Sahar Gul held out her blackened fingertip where a nail was missing. "My husband took away my nail," she said. Afghan government officials say that Sahar Gul is 15, and that her husband's family in Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan tortured her and kept in a dirty basement bathroom with limited food and water for five months for refusing to ...

A week after Sahar Gul, 15, was rescued from the house of her husband's parents, where she was tortured for months, she is demanding justice. She wants to see her husband and in-laws behind bars. Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months and tortured her with hot irons.

A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said on Monday. Sahar Gul's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi.

The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations. The plight of 15-year-old Sahar Gul captivated the nation and set off a storm of international condemnation when it came to light in late December. Gul's hus...

Sahar Gul held out her blackened fingertip where a nail was missing. "My husband took away my nail," she said. Afghan government officials say that Sahar Gul is 15, and that her husband's family in Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan tortured her and kept in a dirty basement bathroom with limited food and water for five months for refusing to ...

A week after Sahar Gul, 15, was rescued from the house of her husband's parents, where she was tortured for months, she is demanding justice. She wants to see her husband and in-laws behind bars. Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months and tortured her with hot irons.

A 15-year-old Afghan girl severely tortured for months by her in-laws in an attempt to force her into prostitution will be sent to India for medical treatment, an Afghan official said on Monday. Sahar Gul's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were arrested and her husband was being sought, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi.