{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Reinstate Malalai Joya to Afghan Parliament","author_name":"Human Rights Watch","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1697.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1697.html'\u003EReinstate Malalai Joya to Afghan Parliament\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(HRW\/IFEX) - The following is a 20 May 2008 Human Rights Watch press release: \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nSuspension of Female MP One Year Ago Is Setback for Democracy \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\n(New York, May 21, 2008) - \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nOn May 21, 2007, the lower house of the Afghan parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, voted to suspend Malalai Joya, a female MP elected from Farah province. Malalai was accused of insulting the parliament and suspended until the end of her term in 2009. \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nMalalai\u2019s suspension occurred after she appeared in a television interview (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}