Expelled Afghan Female Lawmaker Enters 8th Day of Hungar Strike

[ComradePashtun]

Expelled Afghan Female Lawmaker
Enters 8th Day of Hunger Strike

VOA News
October 9, 2011
A female Afghan politician expelled from parliament for alleged voter fraud is vowing to continue a more than week-long hunger strike until she is reinstated.

Sunday is the eighth day of Simeen Barakzai's hunger strike in a protest tent outside parliament in the capital, Kabul. A doctor told the French news agency that Barakzai's health was worsening to a critical condition.

Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission expelled her and eight other lawmakers from the national assembly in August to try to resolve long-running allegations of voter fraud against some winners of a parliamentary vote in September 2010. Some lawmakers who boycotted parliament to protest the expulsions returned to their seats on Saturday.

In other developments, the NATO alliance said Sunday two of its service members were killed in an insurgent attack a day earlier in southern Afghanistan. It gave no other details.

NATO also says a combined Afghan and coalition force killed one Taliban militant and captured several others including an insurgent leader during an operation Saturday into Sunday in the eastern province of Nangarhar. It says the captured insurgent leader helped to bring explosives and weapons from Pakistan into Afghanistan.

[emkhan]

de ta chaa wey che zaan wagay paatey kawa... hagha ko gattaan di. da haghwi zrona sakht di. pata nishta che da kom kanro na ye zrona jorr shawi di.

[randolph85]

there are so many more noble things to die for other than a spot in this laughable parliament.

[ScimitarXEdge]

good for her, she can stand to drop some of those manto lbs.

she'll show those creeps on the Biggest Loser who's boss

[sahil112]

i dont even see why she is doing this, we all no they will just leave her to die of hunger

[IamDZJ]

think of it like this...in 2014 the nato has to leave afghanistan. what do you suppose will happen to all these women if they don't get international recognition and security the way joya woman did?
maybe that is not the case and maybe it very much is.

[sahil112]

we will have to wait and see^^^

[IamDZJ]

well?? Any updates on this??

[IamDZJ]

well that is just sad.. Not that interested her intentions in the first place but it has to hurt when you starve yourself for that many days and then are dragged to the hospital and forced to eat..