70-year-old Afghan Muslim forced 14-year-old girl to marry him after buying her from her father

This video may be old, but it reveals how women and girls are treated as property in Afghanistan which has just recently been elected as a new member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
This old man in his 70s got married to a 14 years old girl without her consensus. The man called Namaz who has got another wife too, claims that he had paid 15,000,000 Afghanis (Equivalent to US$ 1,500) to her father as dowry since, his first wife was unable to deliver children he decided to marry this young girl in order to have children.
The young girl is pleading for divorce but as you can see in the video below the elderly man insists he will never let her leave because she is considered his property.
Afghanistan has been granted United Nations Human Rights Council membership after getting 130 votes.
130 countries including Western countries voted to elect Afghanistan to the UN Human Rights Council, the same country where child marriage, forced marriage, honor killings and Domestic violence are social norms.

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