Women protesters against ‘marital rape’ law spat on and stoned in Kabul

Tom Coghlan in Kabul, April 16, 2009 A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to protest against an “abhorrent” new Afghan law had to be rescued by police from a hail of stones and abuse. The protest by about 200 women, unprecedented in recent Afghanistan history, was directed at the Shia [...]






