KABUL
\nThe Taliban has arrested an Afghan woman who accused a senior official of rape. The woman, who was identified only by her first name Elaha, released a video earlier this week in which she alleged being forced into marriage, beaten and repeatedly raped by former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosti.
\n\u201cThese may be my last words. He will kill me, but it is better to die once than to die every time,\u201d she said.
\nOn Wednesday, a day after the video surfaced, the Taliban said Elaha had been arrested for defamation on orders of the chief justice Abdul Hakeem Haqqanil, and would \u201csoon be sentenced according to Sharia law\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KABUL The Taliban has arrested an Afghan woman who accused a senior official of rape. The woman, who was identified only by her first name Elaha, released a video earlier this week in which she alleged being forced into marriage, beaten and repeatedly raped by former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosti. \u201cThese may be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n