Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Love Crimes of Kabul

Followed by Q&A with Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, chair of Women Studies at SDSU and moderated by  Lynn Hiestand, Global Fellow and Director of Middle East Legal Services at the Heartland Alliance

Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other “moral crimes,” the women of Afghanistan’s Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom. The film follows three young prisoners as they go to trial, revealing the pressures and paradoxes that women in Afghanistan face today, and the dangerous consequences of refusing to fit into society’s norms.