{"id":132,"date":"2013-05-23T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T10:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:58:26","slug":"more-afghan-women-jailed-for-moral-crimes-says-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/more-afghan-women-jailed-for-moral-crimes-says-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"More Afghan women jailed for &#8216;moral crimes&#8217;, says HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">The number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for &#8220;moral crimes&#8221; has risen by 50% in the past 18 months, a rights group says.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch says many are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence.\u00a0Others are behind bars as a result of alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape, it said.\u00a0The government should &#8220;get tough on abusers of women and stop blaming women who are crime victims&#8221;, said HRW.<\/p>\n<p>It said 600 women and girls were now imprisoned for &#8220;moral crimes&#8221; &#8211; the highest since the US-led overthrow of the Taliban 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>About 110 of those were girls under 18.<\/p>\n<p>Virginity tests<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2013\/05\/21\/afghanistan-surge-women-jailed-moral-crimes\">Human Rights Watch&#8217;s alert<\/a>\u00a0comes just three days after angry scenes in the Afghan parliament forced a halt to a debate about reinforcing a law to prevent violence against women.\u00a0The law banning violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages was passed by presidential decree in 2009, but did not gain MPs&#8217; approval.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-22614536\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-22614536<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for &#8220;moral crimes&#8221; has risen by 50% in the past 18 months, a rights group says. Human Rights Watch says many are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence.\u00a0Others are behind bars as a result of alleged adultery, in truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,33,23,39,7,3,18,12,26,27,31],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-abusive","tag-bride","tag-child-marriage-act","tag-criminalisation","tag-forced-marriage","tag-haloproject","tag-marriage","tag-marry","tag-murder","tag-pregnant","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}