<i>In the name of family honour </i>


Gulnaz with her son

She was jailed for adultery after being raped, then pardoned and set free. But now her brothers are threatening to kill her and with nowhere else to go, Gulnaz is resigned to marrying her attacker.
Gulnaz, who does not know her exact age but is 20 or 21, spoke in a quiet voice with her blue burqa pushed up over her face. Her baby daughter, the child of her rapist, played on the floor at her feet.
"I have to marry him, I need a father for my child. I need somebody to take care of my daughter and give us a home," she told AFP.
"I don't have any other place to live. My brothers have vowed to kill me and my attacker and my daughter."
Gulnaz was freed from prison on Tuesday, two years after she was jailed for a so-called moral crime -- being raped by her cousin's husband.
President Hamid Karzai pardoned her on December 1 following an international outcry.
Campaigners describe such persecution, all too common in Afghanistan, as a "remnant of the Taliban era" highlighting the poor state of women's rights, 10 years after the US-led invasion sought to put the country on a democratic path.

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<i>In the name of family honour </i>


Gulnaz with her son

She was jailed for adultery after being raped, then pardoned and set free. But now her brothers are threatening to kill her and with nowhere else to go, Gulnaz is resigned to marrying her attacker.
Gulnaz, who does not know her exact age but is 20 or 21, spoke in a quiet voice with her blue burqa pushed up over her face. Her baby daughter, the child of her rapist, played on the floor at her feet.
"I have to marry him, I need a father for my child. I need somebody to take care of my daughter and give us a home," she told AFP.
"I don't have any other place to live. My brothers have vowed to kill me and my attacker and my daughter."
Gulnaz was freed from prison on Tuesday, two years after she was jailed for a so-called moral crime -- being raped by her cousin's husband.
President Hamid Karzai pardoned her on December 1 following an international outcry.
Campaigners describe such persecution, all too common in Afghanistan, as a "remnant of the Taliban era" highlighting the poor state of women's rights, 10 years after the US-led invasion sought to put the country on a democratic path.

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