The American lawyer Kimberley Motley represented her and successfully submitted a pardon application to President Hamid Karzai.
[1] Gulnaz complained to authorities that her cousin's husband had raped her only after she began vomiting - a sign of pregnancy - in order to avoid social stigma and family conflicts.
[3] Gulnaz's story was included in a European Union documentary on Afghan women jailed for zina (moral crimes).
Speaking to the BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt, Gulnaz said, "I don't want to have anything to do with Afghanistan government again, because they put innocent people in prison.
"[5] Speaking to BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt, a local said, "If she went home, her brothers would kill her because of the shame she brought on her family."
"[6] Speaking to CNN's correspondent Fareed Zakaria, President Hamid Karzai said her case appeared to be a "misjudgment" which he had resolved by pardoning her.
According to Vygaudas Usackas, the EU's Ambassador and Special Representative to Afghanistan, in spite of it having been ten years since the overthrow of the Taliban regime, Afghan women continue "to suffer in unimaginable conditions, deprived of even the most basic human rights".
[8] Bilal Sarwary, from BBC in Kabul, says the recent cases of violence against women in the Afghan region are embarrassing for the government].
They also allege that despite reforms being brought in by President Karzai which are backed up by western countries after the overthrow of the Taliban government, the laws to eliminate violence against women are not enforced.