Mutilated Afghan reveals newly reconstructed face

February 27, 2013 21:08

Three years after she became an emblem of the brutality of the Taliban, a young Afghan woman, who had her nose and ears sliced off as punishment for running away from her abusive husband, has unveiled her reconstructed face to the world.

Aesha Mohammadzai emerged as an emblem of the horrors of the Taliban when her mutilated face appeared on the cover of Time magazine in August 2010.

Now, she has begun a new chapter in her life after doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington succeeded in rebuilding her nose using skin from her forehead and her arm.

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