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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
AFGHANISTAN: Woman Executed for Adultery
After two days of investigation and community gatherings the Shura (community council) passed the verdict. The boy was given 40 lashes and the woman killed," Mohammad Azim, one of Amena's paternal uncles, told IRIN. Everyone in the isolated, conservative village, including the woman's parents, said she deserved to be killed. Mohammad Aslam, father of the executed woman is in police custody charged with her murder, along with six other men. "She was stoned to death right here, we buried her up to the chest and then they stoned her, she died after two hours," Azim continued nonchalantly, as he drew a circle around a pile of small stones in a nearby field. "There were seventy people at the stoning, I watched for few minutes but then left." The killing was even endorsed by Amena'a mother. Link
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