{"id":67896,"date":"2014-02-05T21:59:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=67896"},"modified":"2014-02-05T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T18:02:17","slug":"afghanistan-effectively-legalises-domestic-violence-with-new-law-that-bans-anyone-from-testifying-against-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=67896","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan effectively legalises domestic violence with new law that bans anyone from testifying against relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Afghanistan-women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67895\" alt=\"\u0531\u0586\u0572\u0561\u0576\u057d\u057f\u0561\u0576,\u0576\u057f\u0561\u0576\u0565\u056f\u0561\u0576 \u0562\u057c\u0576\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Afghanistan-women.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Afghanistan-women.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Afghanistan-women-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Afghanistan-women-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has effectively legalised domestic violence by changing a law so it will become impossible for anyone to testify against relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation would allow men to attack their wives, children and sisters without the fear of punishment.<\/p>\n<p>It would ban relatives of the accused from bringing evidence against them.<\/p>\n<p>The change to the law has been passed by parliament but still has to be officially signed off by president Hamid Karzai.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan brought in the Elimination of Violence Against Women law in August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The law criminalised child marriage, selling and buying women to settle disputes, assault and other acts of violence and abuse against women.<\/p>\n<p>President Karzai will now have to decide whether to bring the law into effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Afghanistan has effectively legalised domestic violence by changing a law so it will become&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-67896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-afghanistan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}