EU Censors Own Film on Afghan Women Prisoners

00:00		Nineteen-year-old Gulnaz was raped and got pregnant. This is her daughter.
00:04		But instead of being helped when she went to the police...
00:08		she ended up in jail, accused of “crimes against morality”
00:12		Text: [ I am left here like a dog. No-one is interested in me. They will be, when they seen this film! ]
00:16		It is exactly this film that the EU does not want the world to see,
00:20		the history of women who are imprisoned...
00:24		...because they are raped, running away from home and being threatened with death!
00:28		The Danish TV 2 got this bit of film as evidence...
00:32		...that Gulnaz herself wants this film to be publicised!
00:36		Text:Why not? I have to!
00:40		When people see this they will learn what’s happening in Afghanistan.
00:44		When people see this they will learn what’s happening in Afghanistan.
00:48		TV2 news has a copy of the email that was sent...
00:52		from the EU’s Office in Kabul to the film company Development Pictures.
00:56		Text: the women would be in serious danger wherever this film would be shown!
01:00		And the EU also must consider their agreements with the courts and legal institutions here.
01:04		Even if the film company has been gagged by EU authorities...
01:08		their director still hopes that the film will be coming out…
01:28		Here in the womens prison in Kabul
01:32		160 women are imprisoned. It is in this penitentiary...
01:36		the documentary was made.
01:40		More than half of the Afghan women imprisoned all over Afghanistan were convicted of “Morality crimes.”
01:44		...according to a UN report. But here, ten years after the Taliban were defeated,
01:48		experts says that the Afghan women are left to themselves.
02:08		Gulnaz and her little daughter...
02:12		can now look forward to twelve years behind bars.
02:16		She says that the rapists father paid a bribe to the judge...
02:20		to increase her sentance from two to twelve years.
02:24		Text: I am in prison with my little daughter. Why am I here?
02:28		I will not accept it. They forced me to confess!
02:32		I don’t know why I am in prison — why do I have to be here?
02:36		HE did the crime, but I pay for it!

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