 | Video by RAWA, the following report by BBC Persian, January 3, 2013: Manizha is a 20-year old woman from Moqor area of southern Ghazni province who revealed to BBC how she was constantly tortured by her husband. She was kept in the basement of her home for weeks with her hands and feet tied up. Her husband would beat her with sticks, chains, and even a whip. Manizha's half-dead body tells her sad tale. I met Manizha in the home of one of her relatives in Kabul. When I met her, she couldn't see anything, and screamed from the pain of the wounds and injuries caused by the beatings. She said, "They punched and kicked me on my face. They tied my hands with a rope and beat me with chains, sticks and a whip. I spent days and weeks in the basement of the house with my hands and feet tied up. They forced me to work in the cold and snow." Manziha adds, "There is no part of my body which is not injured. The nails of my hands have fallen, and my feet don't have the strength to move." She says she married her uncle's grandson two years back with her own consent, but she was a servant in her husband's house and not a daughter-in-law. Manizha, a 20-year old woman who was beaten and tortured by her husband and his family Manizha said, "From the day I married this man, I was always striving to make his family happy, and did the house work with a lot of interest. But the incorrect behavior of my husband's mother, and especially my husband's beatings and brutal behavior, didn't give me <b>...</b> | From:rawa77 Views:
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Maniza, Afghan woman victim of violence
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