'We wanted to get married, but unfortunately we were arrested'

For the first time since the Taliban's reintroduction of public lashings, the BBC Afghan Forensic team has exclusively spoken to women about their experiences of being publicly punished. For security reasons the dates and locations of the incidents have been withheld. Some audiences may find these accounts distressing. They tied my hands and covered my face at the court of appeals. In front of all the visitors, they flogged me. I received 39 lashes. They counted them themselves. The document tha