Stoned to death; Taliban 'justice' for young Afghan mother accused of adultery.

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: April 25, 2005 | Copyright information

A YOUNG mother was stoned to death by her father and husband in Afghanistan after being accused of adultery.

The public execution is a shocking reminder of the barbaric punishments that were routinely handed out under the fundamentalist Taliban regime.

The 29-year-old woman's lover was allowed to go free after a whipping, police in the remote far northern province of Badakshan said yesterday.

The killing, carried out after a local warlord gave his go-ahead, was believed to have been the first time a woman has been stoned to death in Afghanistan since British and U.S. ...

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