{"id":236220,"date":"2026-02-20T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=236220"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:32:46","slug":"in-afghanistan-men-allowed-to-beat-wives-and-children-provided-bones-arent-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/236220\/","title":{"rendered":"In Afghanistan, men allowed to beat wives and children, provided bones aren\u2019t broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”, The Telegraph<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph obtained the 60-page penal code – signed by Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader, and distributed to courts across Afghanistan – which classifies spousal beatings as “ta’zir” – discretionary punishment – rather than a criminal act.<\/p>\n

Even where serious injury can be proven, the maximum sentence is 15 days in prison.<\/p>\n

To pursue a complaint, a woman must present her wounds in person to a male judge while remaining fully veiled and accompanied by a male guardian.<\/p>\n

In the majority of domestic violence cases, that guardian is the husband who committed the beating.<\/p>\n

There is no provision in the code prohibiting physical, psychological or sexual violence against women.<\/p>\n

Article 34 says that a woman who goes to her parents’ home without her husband’s permission – even to escape violence – faces up to three months in prison. Family members who shelter her face the same sentence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”, The Telegraph writes. The Telegraph obtained the 60-page penal code – signed by Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban supreme leader, and distributed to courts across Afghanistan – which classifies spousal beatings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":236197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-law","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236221,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236220\/revisions\/236221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}