KABUL, Afghanistan — The two Afghan girls had every good explanation to anticipate what the law states is on the side whenever a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the coach these people were in. Disguised in boys’ garments, girls, many years 13 and 14, was indeed fleeing for just two times along rutted roadways and over hill passes to flee their illegal, forced marriages to much older males, now that they had made it to Herat that is relatively liberal Province.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The two Afghan girls had every good explanation to anticipate what the law states is on the side whenever a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the coach these people were in. Disguised in boys’ garments, girls, many years 13 and 14, was indeed fleeing for just two times along rutted roadways and over hill passes to flee their illegal, forced marriages to much older males, now that they had made it to Herat that is relatively liberal Province. Rather, the authorities officer spotted them as girls, ignored their pleas and immediately delivered them returning to their remote village in Ghor Province. There these were publicly and viciously flogged for daring to hightail it from their husbands. Their tormentors, whom videotaped the punishment, were not the Taliban, but regional mullahs plus the warlord that is former now a pro-government figure who mainly rules the region in which the girls reside. Neither woman flinched visibly during the beatings, and later both stepped away due to their heads unbowed. Sympathizers associated with the victims smuggled out two video recordings of this floggings to your Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, which...