{"id":2352,"date":"2013-01-02T09:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:06:35","slug":"afghan-girl-killed-over-refusal-to-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=2352","title":{"rendered":"Afghan girl killed over refusal to marry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two men have been arrested for slashing the throat of a 15-year-old Afghan girl after her family refused a marriage proposal.<\/em><br \/>\nThe girl <strong>was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini said.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two men attacked her and slit her throat with a knife,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They were arrested and are in police custody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hussaini said one of the suspects had proposed marriage to the girl but her family had rejected the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme violence against women and girls remains a major problem in the conservative Muslim nation more than a decade after US-led troops brought down the notoriously brutal Taliban Islamist regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures by British charity organisation Oxfam, 87 percent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Last month a 20-year-old woman was beheaded by her husband&#8217;s family in the western province of Herat after she refused to become a prostitute, police said. Four people were arrested over the brutal killing.<\/p>\n<p>And in September, five people were arrested over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was whipped 100 times in front of village elders and family members in central Ghazni province. Her alleged boyfriend was fined.<\/p>\n<p>Unmarried girls are often confined to the home and forbidden from maintaining any contact with men outside the immediate family. (<strong>9News<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested for slashing the throat of a 15-year-old Afghan girl after her family refused a marriage proposal. The girl was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}