According to police, a young woman had her head chopped off for refusing to prostitute herself – and one of the killers was her mother-in-law.  Click “more” below for the full story.

DJ Matthew Tyler
To most people, the slaying of 20-year-old Mah Gul is unimaginable.

But it’s just “one more incident that highlights the violent atmosphere that women and girls face in Afghanistan and the region,” Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Thursday.

The killing happened Sunday in Herat province, in southwest Afghanistan along the Iranian border.

Gul’s husband is a baker.  When he left home for work, his mother and her cousin tried to force the young wife into prostitution, said Noorthan Mikvad, spokesman for Herat police.

Another suspect (pictured above) was paraded by police at a press conference where he said the mother-in-law lured him into killing Gul by telling him that she was a prostitute.

“It was around 2:00 am when Gul’s husband left for his bakery. I came down and with the help of her mother-in-law killed her with a knife,” he said.

Herat police say their investigation found that Gul’s husband and father-in-law were not involved in her killing.

Source: CNN