Bibi Aisha
The 19-year-old Afghan woman was mutilated by her husband, her ears and nose cut off in what she calls an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband’s family.
"I was a slave," she said. At 16, she was handed over to her husband's father and 10 brothers, who she says were all members of the Taliban.
She ran away but was caught by police in Kandahar. Her father-in-law found her, and she was tried in a Taliban court for dishonoring her husband's family and bringing them shame. The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off, an act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan, where they left her to die.
With the help of an American provincial reconstruction team in Oruzgan and the organization Women for Afghan Women, she received help and protection. The Grossman Burn Foundation in the United States will provide her with reconstructive surgery. (CNN)
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