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FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An Afghan woman has been stoned to
death for adultery, police said on Sunday, the first such incident in
Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power.
Amina, a 29 year-old married woman, was publicly stoned to death on the
basis of a district court's decision on Thursday in Argo district to
the west of Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan, they said.
"She has been stoned to death," provincial police chief, General Shah
Jahan Noori, confirmed to Reuters, adding a team has been sent to the
area to investigate the incident further.
Adultery is forbidden in the Muslim country and under Islamic sharia
law the penalty can range from flogging to stoning to death.
Several women and men were given such punishments in Badakhshan, a
remote northeastern province, during the government of the Mujahideen
(holy warriors) in the 1990s.
The practice became common during the rule of hardline Taliban who
controlled most of Afghanistan till late 2001 when they were ousted
from power by U.S.-led forces.
A witness, Mujibur Rahman, told Reuters that Amina was dragged out of
her parent's house by local officials and her husband who stoned her to
death while the man was flogged, whipped 100 times and then freed.
Amina's stoning was the first one in Afghanistan since President Hamid
Karzai was installed to power after the U.S.-led forces overthrew the
Taliban's government, Noori said.
death for adultery, police said on Sunday, the first such incident in
Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power.
Amina, a 29 year-old married woman, was publicly stoned to death on the
basis of a district court's decision on Thursday in Argo district to
the west of Faizabad, the provincial capital of Badakhshan, they said.
"She has been stoned to death," provincial police chief, General Shah
Jahan Noori, confirmed to Reuters, adding a team has been sent to the
area to investigate the incident further.
Adultery is forbidden in the Muslim country and under Islamic sharia
law the penalty can range from flogging to stoning to death.
Several women and men were given such punishments in Badakhshan, a
remote northeastern province, during the government of the Mujahideen
(holy warriors) in the 1990s.
The practice became common during the rule of hardline Taliban who
controlled most of Afghanistan till late 2001 when they were ousted
from power by U.S.-led forces.
A witness, Mujibur Rahman, told Reuters that Amina was dragged out of
her parent's house by local officials and her husband who stoned her to
death while the man was flogged, whipped 100 times and then freed.
Amina's stoning was the first one in Afghanistan since President Hamid
Karzai was installed to power after the U.S.-led forces overthrew the
Taliban's government, Noori said.
