{"id":838,"date":"2015-04-09T13:38:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:52:21","slug":"an-afghan-nightmare-forced-to-marry-your-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/an-afghan-nightmare-forced-to-marry-your-rapist\/","title":{"rendered":"An Afghan nightmare: Forced to marry your rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)\u00a0<\/cite>It is an unimaginably hideous outcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

To be raped by your cousin’s husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to suffer the ignominy of global uproar about your jailing and assault, but be pardoned by presidential decree; and then to endure the shame and rejection from a conservative society that somehow held you to blame.<\/p>\n

The solution in this society? Marry your attacker.<\/p>\n

That’s what happened to Gulnaz, who was barely 16 when she was raped. She’s now carrying the third child of her attacker, Asadullah, who was convicted and jailed — though this was then reduced.<\/p>\n

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Gulnaz’s plight — like so much in beleaguered Afghanistan — disappeared from the world’s gaze once she was pardoned and released courtesy of a presidential pardon. Instead of a new start, what followed for Gulnaz was a quiet, Afghan solution to the “problem” — a telling sign of where women’s rights stand\u00a0in Afghanistan despite the billions that have poured into this country from the U.S. government and its NATO allies during more than a decade of war.<\/div>\n
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Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/07\/asia\/afghanistan-gulnaz-rape-marriage\/<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)\u00a0It is an unimaginably hideous outcome. To be raped by your cousin’s husband; be jailed for adultery as your attacker was married; to suffer the ignominy of global uproar about your jailing and assault, but be pardoned by presidential decree; and then to endure the shame and rejection from a conservative society that […]<\/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":[169,124,19,248,249,4,44],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-forced","tag-forced-to-mary","tag-gulnaz","tag-halo-project","tag-rape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}