Afghan Justice: Rape Victims Jailed for Illegal Sexual Contacts

Afghan justice was once again on display with a recent visit of journalists who visited a women’s prison in Lashkar Gah where two-thirds of the women were convicted of illegal sex offenses with many simply being victims of rape.

In the last two years, Afghanistan has moved steadily back to the medieval Islamic traditions enforced by the Taliban, including the treatment of women and girls as virtual chattel under the control of males. This story in The Independent reveals how women are being given 10 or 20 year sentences for moral offenses and many were simply victims of rape — a common crime in the area.

Afghan courts have been enforcing Sharia and Islamic principles with increasingly grotesque results in the last year, click here and here and here.

The Taliban, in the meantime, continues its own reign of terror using executions under the guise of Sharia justice, click here.

Despite the outrages committed by our ally, no one in the Administration appears to be bothered enough to speak out against the mistreatment of women and girls in the country.

For the full story, click here.