Kabul: A 30 year old Afghan woman Setarah has had her nose and lips allegedly cut off by her husband after refusing to sell her jewellery to fund his heroin addiction.Setarah was beaten and mutilated by her husband at their home in Herat, Afghanistan.The husband first hit her on the head with a stone and then slice off her nose and lips with the knife.The couple has four children together.Setarah told in an interview to a news channel that her husband had become violent after she had refused to help him fund his drugs habit.She said “He hit me on the head with a stone, then with the handle of his knife. He cut off my nose, then my lips. He took my mobile phone and the ring I had on my finger. Then he escaped.”Violence against women has always been a major issue of Afghanistan and a recent UN report showed a 28 percent rise in reports of violence against women in the last year. The number of prosecutions using a new law to halt violence against women has increased by only 2 percent.Setarah is now awaiting treatment in Turkey.Police have arrested two suspects, but it is unclear whether her husband has been detained.
