KABUL (SW): Justice seekers for Zahra, a 14-year-old young bride whose in-laws set her on fire, said that the government has thoroughly met their demands of bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Civil activists, who were at a sit-in camp for weeks in Kabul to seek justice for Zahra, finally buried her dead body in Bibi Mehro’s hill 24 days after her death.
Wida Saghari, a civil activist, said on the occasion that the government has responded to their demands, which was to transfer the perpetrators as well as Zahra’s case from central Ghor province to Kabul. She said that open trial was also one of their main demands approved by the government.
She added that during the 24 days’ sit-in, 13 more cases of violence against women have been registered across the country out of which 4 cases have occurred in Ghor province.
She said that currently the media in Kandahar, Ghor and Bamiyan provinces have turned a blind eye to such violence.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Azam, father of the deceased Zahra, denied that he married-off two of his underage daughters. 14-year-old Zahra; who was a resident of Ferozkoh in central Ghor province, was set ablaze by her in laws, and after being shifted to Isteqlal Hospital in Kabul, she passed away.
Following the incident, a sit-in protest camp was set-up by his father and mother in Kabul’s Allauddin Park. They vowed not to bury their daughter unless the government bring the perpetrators to justice.
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