Taliban executes pregnant woman
Herat (Afghanistan), Aug. 9: The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, the police said on Monday.
Bibi Sanubar, 35, was kept in captivity for three days before she was shot dead in a public trial on Sunday by a local Taliban commander in the Qadis district of the rural western province Badghis.
The Taliban accused Sanubar of having an “illicit affair” that left her pregnant.
She was first punished with 200 lashes in public before being shot, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Mohammed Sayeedi said. “She was shot in the head in public while she was still pregnant,” Mr Sayeedi said. The execution is a grim reminder of the Taliban’s harsh six-year rule from 1996 to 2001 in Afghanistan. The radical Islamists staged public stonings or lashings of those found to have committed adultery or sex outside marriage. The then-Taliban government would also chop off the hands and feet of those accused of theft and robbery. Local Taliban commander Mohammed Yousuf carried out the execution, Mr Sayeedi said, before the woman’s body was dumped in an area under government control.
The man who allegedly had an affair with Sanubar has not been punished. Head of Badghis provincial council, Mr Mohammed Nasir Nazaari, confirmed the execution and said the Qadis district is entirely under Taliban control. Head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in western Afghanistan, Mr Abdul Qadir Rahimi, condemned the killing. “Any such trial is is a violation of human rights.”
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