By Jessica Donati HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the western Afghan province of Herat. Farida is now serving a 20-year sentence in Herat's prison for women. "They didn't consider the bad situation I was in." Farida, 31, expected the police to kill her rather than send her to prison where the first four years of her term have been relatively comfortable. But those arrangements are now at risk and fears that women like Farida may be abandoned are growing as the prison's main benefactor, the Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team, winds down operations alongside most foreign troops.
via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/alarm-rises-afghan-women-prisoners-western-troops-leave-054320495.html
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