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Pakistani woman Asmaa Aziz documents domestic violence in video
21-5-2019
Pakistani woman, Asmaa Aziz, published on March 26 a shocking video on social media where she appeared with shaven head and bruised face. She accused her husband of beating her with iron pipes, taking her clothes off and shaving her hair off in front of his assistant for refusing to dance for him and his friends. Asmaa said that when she went to the police to file a complaint, the latter procrastinated, a fact the police denied. The police clarified that it immediately dispatched a team and arrested her husband, who denied his wife’s allegations, together with his assistant on the following day. Asmaa’s lawyers later pleaded the case be tried under the stricter anti-terrorism act instead of the usual criminal procedure. Recalling, that Asmaa’s case sparked uproar on social media with many voicing their anger over domestic violence in Pakistan. Similarly, Amnesty International said “systematic change was needed in Pakistan, noting that women’s rights in the socially conservative country is still controversial. (Al Diyar, May 20, 2019)
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