Battered Afghan wives opt for divorce instead of suicide

2009/07/21 19:55:28 @Reuters: International News

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After regular beatings, torture and attempted murder by her husband, 35-year-old Zahra tried to burn herself to death to escape her marriage. Then she learned of a safer option: divorce. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nB5ak1UQBKY:deH7u2uM9lE:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nB5ak1UQBKY:deH7u2uM9lE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=nB5ak1UQBKY:deH7u2uM9lE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nB5ak1UQBKY:deH7u2uM9lE:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=nB5ak1UQBKY:deH7u2uM9lE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/nB5ak1UQBKY" height="1" width="1"/
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