There is a young woman sheltering under a tree between two busy roads clutching a pile of documents to her chest.

These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a two-year court battle to free herself from life as a child bride.

They are the same papers a Taliban court has invalidated - a victim of the group’s hardline interpretation on Sharia (religious law) which has seen women effectively silenced in Afghanistan’s legal system.

Nazdana’s divorce is one of tens of thousands of court rulings revoked since the Taliban took control of the country three years ago this month.

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    22 months ago

    WTF? That’s like saying a Democrat’s wet dream would be for Israel to be wiped off the planet…

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      22 months ago

      Yeah, the GOP wants checks notes the exact same thing but using a different religion to justify it. Totally different.