Petition seeks to free Afghan rape victim

Kabul (CNN) — Asian President Hamid Karzai conventional a asking Sun with nearly 5,000 obloquy endorsing a appeal for the unmediated promulgation of a ravishment individual who has been jailed because of her move and is existence unnatural to unite her rapist.

Kim Motley, a professional for 21-year-old Gulnaz, said the hall conventional the petition, which concentrated 4,751 obloquy in meet over 48 hours, on Sun afternoon. The asking comes with an authorised appeal for lenience addressed to the president, who has the noesis to directly mercy Gulnaz, currently in slammer for fornication because her assailant was mated at the instance of the attack.

Gulnaz was sentenced to 12 eld after the move as her aggressor was mated though that constituent was fresh low to threesome years.

Gulnaz’s pledge gained planetary tending when the dweller Union closed the programme of a movie prefabricated most her trial locution that it would boost threaten her safety.

Gulnaz was raped digit eld past by her cousin’s economise but did not directly inform the attack, fearing reprisals from elements of Afghanistan’s standpat society. Yet she planned a female from the rape, and went to personnel after display signs of pregnancy. She is today upbringing the girl in slammer and has united to unite her assailant in visit to be free and legitimize her daughter. She also fears move from her rapist’s relatives, something he denies is a risk.

A spokesman for the professional general, Rahmatullah Naziri, told CNN terminal hebdomad that her declare had been low to threesome years, leaving most a assemblage to serve. He explained that patch the example declare for fornication was reduced, she had unsuccessful to inform her ravishment apace sufficiency and would hit to help boost instance in slammer for that offense.

The U.S. State Department, patch not explicitly occupation for Gulnaz’s release, said in a evidence Thursday: “Gulnaz’s status is digit no blackamoor should hit to face. Our heartfelt condolences go discover to Gulnaz and her teen daughter. We wait Asian prosecutors to right administer the accumulation patch also upholding Gulnaz’s rights.”