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[Field Story] Afghan Taliban nullifies divorce rulings from previous government courts… Young brides are told to “go back to their husbands”

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The BBC reported on the 29th (local time) that the Taliban government in Afghanistan is nullifying divorce rulings from previous government courts.


According to the report, Bibi Nazdana (20) is one of tens of thousands of women whose divorces were annulled just a month after the Taliban successfully regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021.


The time it took for Nazdana’s divorce, which was granted after a two-year legal battle, to be annulled was only ten days after her ex-husband, Hekmatullah, a 20-year-old farmer, requested the Supreme Court in Kabul to overturn the divorce ruling.


In 2019, Hekmatullah began demanding that Nazdana’s family hand her over, who was 15 years old at the time. This was eight years after Nazdana’s father had agreed to the early marriage of his seven-year-old daughter in an attempt to turn a hostile family into a friend.


But Nazdana immediately filed for divorce in a court run by the previous US-backed government, repeatedly stating that she could not marry Hekmatullah. Her case took two years, but it finally came down to a favorable ruling.


“The court congratulated me and said, ‘Now you are divorced and free to marry whoever you want,’” Nazdana recalled.


But after Hekmatullah appealed the ruling after the Taliban returned to power, Nazdana was told that she would not be allowed to defend her divorce case herself. Mmm


“The Taliban court said that I could not appear in court because it was against Sharia. Instead, my brother had to represent me,” Nazdana recalled.


Nazdana's older brother Shams (28) also said, "They threatened to hand my sister over to him (Hekmatullah) if we did not comply."


However, Shams's attempts to explain to the court that his sister's life was in danger were in vain. Nazdana's ex-husband, Hekmatullah, who had recently joined the Taliban, won the case.


Nazdana and her siblings decided that they had no choice but to flee the country, risking retaliation in the worst case scenario of honor killings.


When the Taliban returned to power three years ago, they promised to eliminate corruption and enforce justice under Sharia, a form of Islamic law. Since then, they have re-examined about 355,000 previous government rulings. Most of them were criminal cases. About 40 were land disputes and 30 percent were family issues, including divorce, like Nazdana's.


Abdulwahid Haqani, the Taliban Supreme Court’s media relations officer, confirmed Hekmatullah’s victory in an interview with the BBC, saying that “the previous ruling was invalid because Nazdana did not appear.” He added that “the decision by the previous corrupt government to annul Hekmatullah and Nazdana’s marriage was against Sharia and marriage norms.”


The Taliban’s promise to reform the judiciary was not limited to simply re-trialing cases that had already been resolved.


The Taliban systematically removed all judges, both male and female, and replaced them with those who supported their hard-line Sharia.


They even declared that women were not qualified to participate in the judiciary.


Abdulrahim Rashid, the Taliban Supreme Court’s foreign affairs and communications officer, said: “As Sharia requires highly intelligent people to do the judicial work, women are not qualified or competent to be judges.”


Women working in Afghanistan’s judiciary are feeling a sense of loss as well as a lack of confidence, the BBC reported.


Fawzia Amini, a former Supreme Court judge who fled abroad after the Taliban’s return, said there was little hope for improving women’s protections under the law if there were no women in the courts.


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However, the Taliban argue that Afghanistan’s previous government was not Islamic.


Instead, the Taliban relies heavily on Hanafi fiqh (jurisprudence) religious law, which dates back to the 8th century, but has been adapted to meet current needs, Rashid said.


“The previous courts handed down judgments based on criminal and civil law. Now, all judgments are based on Sharia (Islamic law),” he added.


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And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice. (1 Kings 3:28)

We hear the sad news that the Taliban in Afghanistan has regained power and is nullifying divorce decrees from the previous government, once again suffocating Afghan women.


Lord, do not despise the foolishness of the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are trying to return to the days when women were considered property according to the Islamic Sharia law, which heavily relies on religious law dating back to the 8th century.


With the cross of Jesus Christ, we stand against the false steps of Islam, which aim for the heels of women with unfair and evil laws against Jehovah God, the God of justice and love.


Would you please let the women of Afghanistan and their loving families realize the true face of this vain Islam and step forth in response to the gospel.


To this end, let the Christians of Afghanistan stand in solidarity and protect them and ask God to rule Afghanistan with His wisdom.


We believe that the God who gave Solomon the wisdom to rule Israel is now working in Afghanistan.


Let God’s judgment come upon Afghanistan and weaken the Taliban’s evil laws so that Afghanistan can be proclaimed to the world as a nation that enjoys freedom in truth.


Therefore, let the righteous judgment and love of God come to Afghanistan as a new wind of the Holy Spirit that relieves the hearts of the nations that still suffer under Sharia!

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