On a recent afternoon at the main Sadr office in Sadr City, a woman dressed in a black head-to-toe abaya arrived and began explaining that her husband was beating her.

最近的一个下午在萨德尔城主要的萨德尔办公室，一个穿着从头到脚的黑色的长袍的妇女来到这里，开始讲述她的丈夫殴打她。

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Saima's unemployed husband used to take out his anger on his wife by beating her.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Best of all, eight years later, her husband is still beating the odds.

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