A 14-year-old girl is reported to have spent nearly two years in Taliban custody, including periods in which she says she is tortured, after refusing to marry a 70-year-old local commander. The reporting describes her detention as lasting almost two years and portrays the refusal as the trigger for her imprisonment.
The available accounts provide limited independent details about the timing, location, and circumstances of the arrest or the conditions of detention. While the headline framing emphasizes alleged torture and the age gap in the proposed marriage, the core shared element across sources is the claim that the Taliban detained the girl following her refusal to comply with a forced-marriage demand. The articles do not offer corroborating evidence in the provided excerpts, and they do not describe responses from Taliban representatives or other authorities.
