Few months back, Rafiqul Islam, a Bangladeshi chopped off his wife’s fingers because she dared enrolled in a college in order to realise her ambition of becoming a lawyer.
Now the woman at the center of the storm Hawa Akther Jui is happy once again she is able to write with the mutilated hand.
Back then in December doctors said the fingers could not be attached again as they were recovered too late from a dustbin
However, doctors at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) in Dhaka carried out a series of surgical operations on Ms Akther’s hand, which involved setting up a splint between her thumb and wrist so that she can hold a pencil or a pen.
“The fact that I can write again has given me lots of hope and confidence. I have slowly started practising. I will continue my studies and achieve my aim of becoming a lawyer,” Hawa said while sitting in her parents’ one-bedroom house in the town of Narsingdi.
Recounting her ordeal then, Hawa said that her husband carried out the gruesome act soon after paying a surprise visit from his job in the United Arab Emirates in December.
Saying he blindfolded her, taped her mouth and chopped off her fingers with a meat cleaver at a relative’s house.
The undaunted 21-year old, has resolved divorce her husband and continue with her quest to becoming