Man cuts off wife's nose, lips in Afghanistan
Kabul: A 30 year old Afghan woman Setarah has had her nose and lips allegedly cut off by her husband after refusing to sell her jewellery to fund his heroin addiction.Setarah was beaten and mutilated
She said “He hit me on the head with a stone, then with the handle of his knife. He cut off my nose, then my lips. He took my mobile phone and the ring I had on my finger. Then he escaped.”
Violence against women has always been a major issue of Afghanistan and a recent UN report showed a 28 percent rise in reports of violence against women in the last year.