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We are powerless. The justice is in the hands of few people
My daughter was a school student and even after the order of the Taliban Emir, she was studying in a secret school. One day on the way to school, she was arrested by some Taliban and later they accused her of adultery. The court accepted the charge against her without investigation, and sentenced her to 39 whippings in public and three years of imprisonment, then they imposed this punishment on her in public. I tried very hard to make the judges understand that their decision is unfair and they have no evidence, and no evidence has been presented to prove this charge, but the judges' behavior showed confusion and they gave their decision without any reason and wanted to implement their decision by force. We are powerless, justice is in the hands of a few people, there is no one to whom we can take our request and ask for justice. The court did not even provide us with any witness, evidence or confession of the accused to prove that my daughter has done such an act. The whole family was affected by this punishment, and that in fact they gave an unjust punishment not to one member of our family but to our whole family, which we will never forget. Our social status has been destroyed, I have moved from my village, because I can’t tell anyone that my daughter is innocent, now my life is spent in loneliness and I am very helpless and disappointed. In short, this brutality of the Taliban has changed the life of my whole family.