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Mumtaz, right, with her cousin at a safe house in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in 2015, four years after a militia leader doused Mumtaz and her family with acid. Credit Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
by Rod Nordland and Jawad Sukhanyar | Aug 18, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Kabul, Afghanistan — Mumtaz’s new baby still has no name. Mumtaz is a 23-year-old woman from the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, the victim of an acid attack when she was 18, whose tormentors were jailed. It was a rare legal victory in the struggle for women’s...
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A view of Stone Town, Zanzibar, where men riding a motorbike threw acid at two British women on the evening of August 7. (Getty Images)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 8, 2013 | World
Dar Es Salam, Reuters—Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said on Thursday. The pair, both 18 and from...
