The woman, who identified herself only by her first name Elaha, appeared in a video on social media and said a senior Taliban official forced her into marriage and raped her repeatedly.
official of forcing her into marriage and raping her repeatedly in a video that appeared on social media this week.
“These may be my last words. He will kill me, but it is better to die once than to die every time,” she said in the video, which surfaced on Tuesday.page of the Kabul branch of the Supreme Court said Elaha had been formally arrested and would soon be sentenced for defamation. In tweets Wednesday, Khosti confirmed that he had married Elaha, but he denied mistreating her. “I assure you that I have not done anything illegal,” he wrote. In recent months, Khosti was transferred out of his spokesman post and it is not clear what his new position is.
Khosti said he divorced her after finding she “has a problem in her faith” and he accused her of insulting Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
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