Many hundreds of Afghan adult females are in jail for "moral crimes", which include running absent and extra-marital sex, Human Rights Observe (HRW) has stated. Inside a report, it said that women have been punished for fleeing domestic abuse and violence even though some rape sufferers had been also imprisoned.
Intercourse exterior marriage - even though the woman is forced - is taken into account adultery, a different "moral crime". The I'd to Run Absent report was introduced in Kabul on Wednesday. The report stated the authorities of President Hamid Karzai had did not fulfil its obligations beneath intercontinental human rights legal guidelines.
"It is stunning that 10 a long time after the overthrow in the Taliban, adult females and ladies remain imprisoned for working far from domestic violence or forced marriage," HRW Government Director Kenneth Roth stated.
The report termed over the authorities to release about 400 girls and women held in jails or juvenile detention centres. "Some gals and girls are actually convicted of mina, intercourse outside of marriage, after being raped or forced into prostitution," it stated.
"Judges frequently convict solely about the basis of 'confessions' provided during the absence of attorneys and 'signed' without the need of getting been go through to adult females who are not able to study or compose.
"After conviction, girls routinely deal with prolonged jail sentences, sometimes a lot more than ten several years." It claimed that the circumstance had been created worse by Mr Karzai regularly modifying his place on women's rights.
"Unwilling or unable to take a reliable line versus conservative forces in the place, he has usually produced compromises which have negatively impacted women's rights." Before this month the president endorsed a "code of conduct" issued by an influential council of clerics which will allow husbands to defeat wives beneath specific conditions.
The BBC's Emily Buchanan says the lack of women's rights underneath the Taliban helped to justify Western army intervention in Afghanistan in 2001. Our correspondent claims that due to the fact then there's been considerably progress on ladies access to education and participation in community daily life.
A lot of activists dread that hard-won rights are more and more being undermined as the authorities tries to woo conservative spiritual forces.
Intercourse exterior marriage - even though the woman is forced - is taken into account adultery, a different "moral crime". The I'd to Run Absent report was introduced in Kabul on Wednesday. The report stated the authorities of President Hamid Karzai had did not fulfil its obligations beneath intercontinental human rights legal guidelines.
"It is stunning that 10 a long time after the overthrow in the Taliban, adult females and ladies remain imprisoned for working far from domestic violence or forced marriage," HRW Government Director Kenneth Roth stated.
The report termed over the authorities to release about 400 girls and women held in jails or juvenile detention centres. "Some gals and girls are actually convicted of mina, intercourse outside of marriage, after being raped or forced into prostitution," it stated.
"Judges frequently convict solely about the basis of 'confessions' provided during the absence of attorneys and 'signed' without the need of getting been go through to adult females who are not able to study or compose.
"After conviction, girls routinely deal with prolonged jail sentences, sometimes a lot more than ten several years." It claimed that the circumstance had been created worse by Mr Karzai regularly modifying his place on women's rights.
"Unwilling or unable to take a reliable line versus conservative forces in the place, he has usually produced compromises which have negatively impacted women's rights." Before this month the president endorsed a "code of conduct" issued by an influential council of clerics which will allow husbands to defeat wives beneath specific conditions.
The BBC's Emily Buchanan says the lack of women's rights underneath the Taliban helped to justify Western army intervention in Afghanistan in 2001. Our correspondent claims that due to the fact then there's been considerably progress on ladies access to education and participation in community daily life.
A lot of activists dread that hard-won rights are more and more being undermined as the authorities tries to woo conservative spiritual forces.
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