Women of Afghanistan Under Taliban Threat

Sakina
When Sakina was 14, her family sold her into marriage with a 45-year-old man who had a carpet-weaving business. "I didn't know about marriage," she says. "I didn't know about relations between men and women." He used her as an indentured servant and beat her with weaving tools when she didn't work fast enough. Once, when she dropped some tea glasses, the family cut off all of her hair. She ran away. Now she is trying to get a divorce, which her in-laws refuse to grant because, they say, they paid good money for her.

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