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Taliban judge jails mother with baby after she asks to divorce violent husband
October 1, 2026（https://rukhshana.com/en/taliban-judge-jails-mother-with-baby-after-she-asks-to-divorce-violent-husband/）
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By Ziba Balkhi
When Marhaba went to court to seek a divorce she was hoping for a quick end to years of abuse from her violent husband; instead the judge sent her to prison.
The 26-year-old mother has spent four months in a filthy, overcrowded jail in northern Afghanistan with her baby and three-year-old son, her lawyer said. All three are in poor health, but requests for her release have gone unanswered.
Since seizing power five years ago, the Taliban have made it increasingly hard for women to divorce.
Women seeking to end abusive marriages say judges often blame them for their situation and tell them to return to their husbands and put up with the violence（https://rukhshana.com/en/a-few-beatings-wont-kill-you-judge-rejects-divorce-request-of-woman-abused-by-husband-in-afghanistan/）. Sometimes they punish women for “disobedience” to their husbands.
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Marhaba’s sister told Rukhshana Media that her 39-year-old husband was a drug addict who could not support his family and was having an affair. She said Marhaba had suffered four years of physical and verbal abuse.
But Marhaba’s lawyer said the judge rejected her divorce request, telling her she was a “shameless woman” to come to court because of “one or two punches and kicks”.
He also dismissed complaints of the husband’s infidelity, saying every man had the right to four wives.
When Marhaba told the judge she could no longer bear the violence and would kill herself if he did not grant her a divorce, he sent her to prison to “to come to her senses”, the lawyer said. Suicide is considered a sin in Islam.
It is unclear how long Marhaba will remain in jail as the judge did not give a specific sentence.
The Taliban have previously imprisoned（https://rukhshana.com/eight-months-in-taliban-prison-fate-of-an-eighteen-year-old-girl-for-requesting-divorce/） other women for seeking divorce or refusing forced marriages（https://rukhshana.com/en/mother-appeals-for-release-of-girl-jailed-for-refusing-to-wed-taliban-ally/）.