{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Afghanistan: Surge in Women Jailed for \u2018Moral Crimes\u2019","author_name":"Human Rights Watch","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article158469.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article158469.html'\u003EAfghanistan: Surge in Women Jailed for \u2018Moral Crimes\u2019\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(Kabul) \u2013 The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for \u201cmoral crimes,\u201d Human Rights Watch said today.  Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nStatistics from Afghanistan\u2019s Interior Ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for \u201cmoral crimes\u201d in Afghanistan had risen to about 600 in May 2013 from 400 in October 2011 \u2013 a 50 percent increase in a year (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}