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Aisha

Die Afghanin Bibi Aisha. Foto: Jodi Bieber

• In 2009 Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old from the southern Afghan province of Oruzgan fled her husband’s house, complaining of beatings, maltreatment and a life that amounted to abject slavery. She had been given to her husband when she was 12, as payment to settle a dispute – a practice in Afghanistan that goes by the fitting name of „baad“.
• Having endured six years of torment and abuse, she escaped to the only place she could go, back to her family home. It was here that the Taliban arrived one night and demanded that the girl be handed over to face justice. She was taken away to a mountain clearing, where the local Taliban commander issued his verdict. She was then held down by her brother-in-law, while her husband first sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Aisha passed out from the pain but soon awoke choking on her blood.
• With the help of the American military, aid workers took her to a women’s refuge in Kabul run by an Afghan-American organisation, Women for Afghan Women (WAW). There she remained, under the care of trained social workers, until August 2010.

• She was then flown to California to undergo reconstructive surgery at the Grossman Burn Centre in California. However, following psychological assessment, the medical staff at the foundation decided that Aisha required more counselling and therapy before she could give her informed consent to the gruelling series of operations that surgery would entail.
• In November 2010 she was moved to New York, where she remains under the care and supervision of WAW.

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