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Pushtun woman fights sex slavery
 The courts in Khanpur are to soon decide the case of Aisha Parveen, 20, and the decision could mean life or death for her, reports the New York Times. Ms Parveen ... is steeling herself for a state-administered horror. Just two months after she escaped from the brothel in which she was tortured and imprisoned for six years, the courts are poised to hand her back to the brothel owner, writes Nicholas D Kristof.
| Pakland is crawling with holy men, who're against sin and obscenity in every form. Yet somehow the country seems to have enough whorehouses per capita that the macs have to go out conking young girls on the head to drag them back to their genuine dens of iniquity. |
Parveen says she was 14 when she was hit on the head while walking to school in NWFP. She awoke to find herself imprisoned in a whorehouse brothel hundreds of miles away, in the town of Khanpur. Parveen fought back and refused to sleep with customers, but she says the brothel owner - Mian Sher - beat and sexually tortured her, and regularly drugged her so she would fall unconscious and customers could do with her as they liked.
| Doesn't everybody like to doink women when they're comatose? Only thing better is when they've been dead more than 24 hours and the rigor mortis has worn off... |
This went on for six years, during which she says she was beaten every day. The girls in the brothel were forced to sleep naked at night, so that they would be too embarrassed to try to escape. Parveen says she believes that two of them, Malo Jan and Suwa Tai, were killed after they repeatedly refused to sleep with customers. In any case condoms were never available, so all the girls may eventually die of AIDS.
| They're not human, of course. They're just flesh, receptacles for male bodily fluids, kind of like a public toilet with feet. |
Kristof says of his meeting with Mian Sher, He denied kidnapping Parveen, saying that he had married her six years earlier. He also denied that he pimped the girls - a claim undermined by a customer who was walking out of his brothel as I arrived. Others working in the area said that Mian Sher unquestionably ran a brothel. In January, Parveen got a break. A metalworker, Mohamed Akram, had been doing work in the brothel, and he fell in love with her. On January 5, Parveen escaped with Akram and they married the next day.
| And now Mian Sher's got her in court, trying to get his property back. |
Posted by: Fred 2006-03-27 |
