Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders’ homes, not prisons

By Mohammadullah Himatyar SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. “I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave,” Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika. Fawzia is a familiar name by which she is known to relatives and close friends.

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Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders’ homes, not prisons