. >> so tell us about this story of sahar and how it got attention and that the people responsible for the abuse were essentially put in jail? >> well, unfortunately i think that the attention that the case has generated is more unusual than the fact, themselves. this type of abuse against women happens all too often in afghanistan, and usually goes without notice. this is particularly frustrating, because in 2009, president karzai signed a law on the elimination of violence against women which makes the things done to her crimes for the first time, but this is law is mostly unenforced. the reason that sahar's case got so much attention is because of the element of forced prosecution made it particularly shocking to the afghan media, but second of all, i think that afghan women's rights activists have been very effective increasing increasingly in the last year or so in bringing the individual cases like sahar's to the media and the accountability of president karzai and the rest of the government. >> tell us about what is happening with her now? where is she living? is she safe? >> sh