Gros progrès du côté de la libération de la condition féminine en Afghanistan. Celle-ci a effectivement été libérée par (notre ami) le Président Karzai, à la condition qu’elle épouse l’homme qui l’avait violée. (Redis-moi un peu ce qu’on est allés faire là-bas avec nos soldats-des-droits-de-la-Femme, stp.)
Jailed Afghan rape victim wins pardon after agreeing to marry attacker - latimes.com
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President Hamid Karzai has pardoned a jailed rape victim, but only after she agreed to marry the man she says raped her.
The 19-year-old woman, whose name is Gulnaz, was one of the subjects of a documentary recently produced by the European Union, highlighting the phenomenon of rape victims being imprisoned for the “moral crime” of having sex outside marriage, even against their will.
Karzai’s office said in a statement Thursday evening that the president had accepted a recommendation from a special judicial committee that the woman be pardoned and freed — “taking into consideration the consent of both sides for a conditional wedlock.”
Gulnaz became pregnant as a result of the rape and gave birth in prison.
Hundreds of Afghan women are serving jail sentences in similar circumstances. But the documentary coverage of Gulnaz’s case sparked a petition drive seeking her freedom, and as a result, judicial authorities reexamined her case.