Sixty-two children live behind bars in Badam Bagh prison and share cells with their mothers and up to five other women. Most of the inmates are jailed for so-called 'moral crimes' such as leaving their husbands or refusing an arranged marriage. Nuria had a son in jail (pictured) and was sentenced because she wanted to divorce the man her parents forced her to marry. Mariam (inset) was raped at gunpoint and has been jailed because she shot the rapist. Women's activists say 12 years after Taliban rule ended there have been hardly any improvements.
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