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Married off at seven to a man old enough to be her great-grandfather, Marwa/Fatima endured rapes, beatings and starvation until she could take no more and tried to kill herself. Today, the 22-year-old is living in one of the few shelters for battered women still open in Afghanistan since the Taliban's August return to power, but fearful she could lose her place at any time.
Divorced Afghan women forced back to abusive ex-husbands
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