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Prison for Love Defiance Highlights Taliban Repression in Kabul
In Kabul a 19 year old woman Fariba faced a five year sentence for defying her parents by choosing her boyfriend over an arranged marriage. The article notes prisons used to punish women for talking to a non relative or traveling alone. Two cousins were forcibly married and poverty drives such exchanges. Fariba remains imprisoned in a mud floored cell awaiting marriage to her chosen partner.
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Fariba
Kabul
Women’s
Taliban
Northern Alliance
Kandahar
Farida