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The inmates of Kabul’s women’s prison have been freed since the Taliban MCQ #2tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed , yet 19-year-old Fariba still lives in her mud-floored cell. It has now become a MCQ #3tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed from her conservative family. A month after the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul, the prison remains a sad reminder of the MCQ #4tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed women suffered at the hands of the rigid Taliban. Women were the target of some of their MCQ #5tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed rules.

Women were jailed for offenses ranging from talking to a boy other than a relative or traveling outside the home alone. Fariba MCQ #6tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed to the Taliban when her parents tried to force her to marry a man they had selected for her, instead of her 18-year-old boyfriend. Blinded perhaps by MCQ #7tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed , she thought they would understand. “‘Please,’ I begged them. ‘Please let me marry him. I can’t marry the boy my parents chose for me. Please,’” she said.

But the Taliban rulers MCQ #8tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed her to prison, and beat her boyfriend. From there, things only got worse. At one point, one of the Taliban guards wanted to marry her against her will and take her to Kandahar, the spiritual headquarters of the movement. A guard at the women’s prison stepped in and was able to MCQ #9tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed it. Others were not so fortunate.

FORCED MARRIAGES

For one year under the Taliban rule, Fariba lived in a mud-floored cell, with the only rays of light coming through a tiny window high in the wall. She is staying there now until she can marry the man of her MCQ #12tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed . There is no heat in the mud-room cells, and the only decorations are handmade mobiles — made of pits of paper folded delicately and gently into tiny flowers — hanging from the ceiling.

“These were made by the women,” said Suhaila, a Taliban guard who has stayed on. Suhaila, whose loose white scarf revealed dyed blonde hair, said the Taliban’s authority was MCQ #13tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed . Their punishments were swift and harsh.

VIRTUE AND VICE

Still tacked up to a board, protected by glass, at the detention center are Turabi’s edicts:

• no mixing of the sexes;
• no music;
• no television;
• no photography;
• no women uncovered by the all-enveloping burqa;
• no women traveling by themselves;
• no women working outside the home;
• no education for women;
• no men without long unkempt beards.

Detainees included a group of foreign Christian aid workers — two American women, four Germans and two Australians — who were MCQ #16tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed two weeks ago. Six of the workers were women and they were held separately. Their prison was a squalid two-room compound in the center of Kabul. On the wall, hand drawn by Taliban guards, were the words Allah in Arabic script. There was also a small handwritten paper MCQ #17tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed the value of purdah — wearing the veil. “The good thing for a woman and the beautiful thing for a woman is hijab (veil),” it read.

The foreign aid workers drew a MCQ #18tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed to brighten their squalid prison where they spent several weeks, apparently a jungle scene with lovingly sketched details — an elephant, a giraffe, a camel — almost MCQ #19tradition brainchild repression sentenced passion prevent unprecedented harshest fled rescued mural choice haven extolling uncompromising forcibly unrecognizable appealed . The Taliban soldiers, who consider images to be against Islam, tried to wash it from the wall.