Last month, Afghanistan passed a law legalsing spousal rape within the country's Shia community. Some Afghan women were unhappy with this, so they did what you do in a democracy and organised a protest. In return, they were stoned:
Afghan women protesting against a new law that severely undermines women's rights were pelted with stones in the country's capital Wednesday, say reports.Again, I have to ask: why are we supporting this? Why are we supporting them? We're propping up Afghanistan's government - the government which passed this law and enables this behaviour - with armed troops. We might as well be propping up the Taliban.About 300 mostly young women gathered in Kabul to show their opposition to a recently passed law that forbids women from refusing to have sex with their husbands and requires them to get a male relative's permission to leave the house.
The demonstration, organized by women's rights activists in the country, occurred in front of a Shia mosque recently built by a cleric who helped craft the law. Critics of the law say it effectively legalizes rape within marriage and is a return to Taliban-style rule.
About 1,000 people opposed to the protest surrounded the women and threw gravel and small stones as police struggled to hold them back. The group of counter-protesters included both men and women.
