Bibi Aisha show her new face to the world.

The story of an Afghan girl named Aisha was first told by CNN and ABC. But it was her image on an August cover of Time that gave her story international prominence. Her testimony, about how she was forced to marry a Taliban fighter at the age of 12 and his mutilation of her when she fled in fear of her life, was a true life tale that could not be ignored. It is hard to forget this young Afghan woman, knowing what was done to her.





Last August she turned his face to the world by the hand of Time magazine. Aisha Bibi is a 19 year old girl whose husband cut off her nose and ears for having run away from home, where she was a slave. Now, Bibi is presented to the public in Los Angeles wearing a very natural appearance, as you have placed a prosthesis and reconstructive treatment step prior to the Grossman Burn Foundation paid in California. Aisha Bibi's story is relatively common in Afghanistan. Her father gave her and her baby sister to pay a blood debt, as the uncle of the girls had killed a man. Bibi was delivered in Uruzgan to the family of her new husband, who was a Taliban fled. In the house of his in-laws were the two girls, is a slave of his ten-in-law, of those receiving blows and insults, and who made them sleep in the barn. Desperate to what was happening, Bibi decided to flee to the south, to Kandahar, with the help of two neighbors who really wanted to sell. A police patrol discovered them and eventually spent five months in jail until her husband gave her. As in Afghanistan Taliban courts work, she was sentenced to a punishment of her husband, who cut off his nose and ears in the desert, where he left to his fate. ,, No one knows exactly how Bibi out of this bind: Some say he crawled to the house of his grandfather and others who found it almost by accident, American volunteers from an NGO. The truth is that it was sent to the shelter for Afgan Woman Woman (WAW), where he spent ten months . Slowly and with the help of a psychologist Aisha spoke again and sometimes even smiling until he received the news that was to be operated in Los Angeles by a foundation to cover expenses . Now I have to wait for definitive surgery and, especially, get free his sister, who, ten years, is home of the husband's family, probably paying for what his uncle and also the young Bibi Aisha.

Bibi Aisha, with her temporary prosthetic nose, at the Grossman Burn Foundation gala.

Before Treatment

After treatment

UPDATE: 9 DEC 2010

Father-in-law of disfigured Afghan teen arrested

The father-in-law of a young Afghan woman who said her nose and ears were sliced off to punish her for running away from her violent husband has been arrested, officials said Wednesday.

The woman, Aisha, gained worldwide attention when she appeared on the Aug. 9 cover of Time magazine.

Under orders from a Taliban commander acting as a judge, she was disfigured last year as punishment for fleeing her husband's home, according to Time's story in August and other accounts.

Just 18 years old at the time, Aisha said she ran away to escape her in-laws' beatings and abuse.

Gen. Juma Gul Himat, provincial police chief of Uruzgan province, said Aisha's father-in-law was arrested 12 days ago on charges of disfiguring Aisha and of being part of a Taliban network in the area, involved in several attacks against the police.

He identified the father-in-law as Mohammad Sulaiman and said he had confessed. The Interior Ministry confirmed the arrest.

Sulaiman was being held in jail in Uruzgan province.

Aisha was sent to Los Angeles over the summer for reconstructive surgery. In September, she was fitted with a temporary, prosthetic nose so she could visualize what she would look like and to help build her confidence.