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Protesting women candidates say police tortured them

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KABUL candidates in capital Kabul on Saturday claimed police tortured and beat them and dismantled and tore apart their protest tents.

For the past eight days, a number of protesting women candidates have erected tents close to the Presidential Palace to protest fraud and rigging in last year’s Wolesi Jirga elections.

They are 12 unsuccessful candidates from Herat, Kunduz, Nangarhar, Helmand, Baghlan, Maidan Wardak provinces and Kochi constituency.

They have been asking the government . . .

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