"When I said he beats me and constantly humiliates and insults me, and that I want a divorce, the judge asked: You want a divorce just because of that? Don't you have another reason?' When Farzana went on to describe the attack she had recently suffered, she said the judge asked whether she had proof of the abuse."
"A little anger and a few beatings won't kill you. Islam allows a man to beat his wife if she disobeys him, to discipline her. Go, and don't come again asking for divorce over such things."
"One day I was very sick and had no energy to cook dinner. When he came home from work, he said: Now you don't even do the housework?' I told him I was sick, but he beat me with a mobile phone charger cable. The marks on my back and arms remained for several days."
A woman in northern Afghanistan named Farzana sought divorce after her quick-tempered husband beat her with a cable wire while she was ill. When her case reached a Taliban court, the judge rejected her divorce application and dismissed her abuse claims. The judge questioned why she would divorce over beatings, suggested she was making excuses to remarry, and told her that Islam permits men to beat disobedient wives for discipline. The judge instructed her to return to her husband, stating that minor beatings would not cause death. This case reveals the severe lack of legal protection for women under Taliban rule and the judicial system's dismissal of domestic violence as grounds for divorce.
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