Refusing to submit to a virginity test, one bride risks death

United Nations Population Fund
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Author: UNFPA
A large majority of women in Herat have experienced spousal violence, surveys show. Pictured are women working in a pistachio factory in Herat. © UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
HERAT, Afghanistan – Sahar*, 22, and Abdul Baseer*, 28, in Guzara District of Afghanistan’s Herat Province, did not choose to marry one another. Instead, the decision was made by their parents, as is typical in much of the country. 
Two months after the wedding, Sahar’s father found his daughter in tears. “I asked her if something is wrong, but all she told me was that everything is fine and that she misses us,” recalled her father, Aref*. “I think I knew even then that something was wrong.”

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