Crowd Attacks Afghan Women Protesting New Marriage Laws

By the Associated Press

Posted Apr 15, 2009 9:40 AM CDT

(AP) – A group of some 1000 Afghans today swarmed a demonstration of 300 women in Kabul protesting a new conservative marriage law. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. The law, passed last month, says a husband... Read full story »

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