A right group has said the number of women and girls in Afghanistan imprisoned for moral crimes has risen by 50 percent in the past 18 months.
Human Rights Watch said that many women are jailed for running away from home, often from forced marriages or domestic violence.
According to the BBC, the group said other women are jailed for alleged adultery, in truth often involving rape.
HRW said that the Afghan government should get tough on abusers of women and stop blaming women who are crime victims.
The group said that 600 women and girls were now imprisoned for moral crimes, which was the highest since the US-led overthrow of the Taliban 12 years ago, the report added.
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