{"id":37466,"date":"2026-03-12T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/?p=37466"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:31:56","slug":"a-few-beatings-wont-kill-you-judge-rejects-divorce-request-of-woman-abused-by-husband-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rukhshana.com\/en\/a-few-beatings-wont-kill-you-judge-rejects-divorce-request-of-woman-abused-by-husband-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A few beatings won\u2019t kill you\u2019: Judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Zahra Joya, Ziba Balkhi and <em>\u00a0<\/em>Tom Levitt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under new Taliban laws, a husband is allowed to beat his wife as long as it is not done with \u2018obscene force\u2019, which the woman must prove in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shocking level of physical violence against women permitted under the Taliban\u2019s new laws has been revealed this week by the case of a woman in northern&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Afghanistan<\/a>, who said she was beaten with a cable wire by her husband and told by a judge: \u201cYou want a divorce just because of that? \u2026 A little anger and a few beatings won\u2019t kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farzana* said her husband was quick-tempered and often resorted to beating her. He regularly humiliated her and called her \u201cdisabled\u201d, she said, because her right leg was slightly shorter than the left. She had tolerated the abuse for the sake of their children, but one evening, she said, his violence went too far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne day I was very sick and had no energy to cook dinner. When he came home from work, he said: \u2018Now you don\u2019t even do the housework?\u2019 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, but I didn\u2019t think of taking photos that might one day help me in court.\u201d<br><br>After the attack, she decided to seek an end to the violence by filing for divorce, but when her case reached a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taliban<\/a>&nbsp;court recently, Farzana said the judge not only rejected her application but belittled her claims of abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I said he beats me and constantly humiliates and insults me, and that I want a divorce, the judge asked: \u2018You want a divorce just because of that? Don\u2019t you have another reason?\u2019\u201d When Farzana went on to describe the attack she had recently suffered, she said the judge asked whether she had proof of the abuse.<br><br>\u201cWhen I said no, he told me: \u2018You were young and enjoyed your husband. Now that he is getting older you are making excuses to divorce him so you can marry someone else. Go back, you have a nice husband, live with him. A little anger and a few beatings won\u2019t kill you. Islam allows a man to beat his wife if she disobeys him, to discipline her. Go, and don\u2019t come again asking for divorce over such things.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaharzad Akbar, the head of the human rights organisation Rawadari, said such cases were now commonplace in Afghanistan. Women either had to live with domestic violence or seek justice from the Taliban courts, she said, \u201cwhere they are often lectured and sent back to the same abusive houses or worse, punished for \u2018disobeying\u2019 husbands\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women\u2019s rights activists, UN experts and lawyers have long argued that the conditions being imposed on Afghan women, including banning them from schools, most jobs and speaking in public,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/09\/what-is-gender-apartheid-activists-international-law-women-girls-rights-afghanistan-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amounts to gender apartheid<\/a>.<br><br>But a new criminal code given to courts last year \u2013 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/un-rights-chief-says-taliban-decree-expands-executions-deepens-repression-2026-02-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicised in January<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 has gone further by permitting violence against women and preventing them from seeking justice. According to the code, men are allowed to beat their wives as long as they do not use \u201cobscene force\u201d, defined as causing fractures, wounds or visible bruises, which the wife must prove in court. For this crime a man may be sentenced to only 15 days of imprisonment. Akbar said the code gave husbands a \u201clicence for domestic violence and punishments, short of breaking bones\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking about the code to the UN this week, Malala Yousafzai, a Nobel laureate, said: \u201cThis is not culture. It is not religion. It is a system of segregation and domination. We must call the regime in Afghanistan by its true name: gender apartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the court verdict, Farzana said she was forced to return to her husband, who had now become more violent than before. \u201cHe tells me: \u2018Either endure it or die.\u2019 He doesn\u2019t even allow me to go to my father\u2019s house.\u201d The judge also told Farzana she could not object to her husband taking a second wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN Women special representative in Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson, said: \u201cIf we allow Afghan women and girls to be silenced \u2013 and punished purely because they are women \u2013 we send a message that the rights of women and girls everywhere are disposable, and that is an immensely dangerous precedent.\u201d<br><br><em>* Name has been changed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published in Partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/mar\/12\/a-few-beatings-wont-kill-you-judge-rejects-divorce-request-of-woman-abused-by-husband-in-afghanistan\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under new Taliban laws, a husband is allowed to beat his wife as long as it is not done with \u2018obscene force\u2019, which the woman must prove in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1022,966,9581,902,968],"tags":[11514,11515],"class_list":["post-37466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases-en","category-featured-en","category-our-work-en","category-reports-en","category-special-coverage-en","tag-new-taliban-laws","tag-physical-violence-against-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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