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| Recovery: Bibi Aisha (pictured with a prosthetic nose in Beverly Hills, California, in October 2010) moved to the US two years ago after fleeing Afghanistan and is now six months into her surgery at a hospital |
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| Famous photo: Aesha's story was first told in 2010 by Time magazine, who published this harrowing cover photo of her - horrifying people around the world and symbolising the oppression of Afghan women |
Aesha Mohammadzai, a young woman who was brutally tortured in Afghanistan by her husband after she tried to escape their abusive forced marriage is on the road to recovery as doctors continue to rebuild her face.
Yet Aesha , who has never attended school or celebrated her birthday, insisted yesterday that she is no longer scared to look at herself in the mirror, as her treatment reaches the halfway stage.
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