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<title><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN: Virginity-related penalties &#8220;extremely unfair&#8221;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRIN: IRIN: The penalties that Afghan women suffer whenever allegations of pre-marital sex and loss of virginity emerge, including death, are extreme, discriminatory and not in the penal code, activists said. &#8220;I saw a woman who was publically humiliated and tortured because she had allegedly lost her virginity before her wedding night,&#8221; said Suraya Subhrang, a women&#8217;s rights commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).]]></description>
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