Kabul: President Hamid Karzai says police will
arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son's teenage wife for the past six months while trying to force her into a life of crime.
After meeting senior security officials yesterday, Karzai
said in a statement that whoever used violence against
15-year-old Sahar Gul must be punished.
According to police in northeastern Baghlan province, the
in-laws kept Gul in a basement for six months, ripped her hair
out and broke her fingers.
On Saturday, the ministers of public health and women's
affairs and the head of the government's human rights commission visited Gul, who is recovering in a Kabul hospital.
They demanded from the government that her in-laws be
immediately arrested.
PTI
First Published: Monday, January 02, 2012, 15:32