EIn August, the Taliban again decreed several repressive laws that worsen the atrocious conditions in which Afghan women live. Two weeks ago, one of them was reportedly stoned to death in a village in the Rod region, after the practice of stoning had been rehabilitated a few months earlier.
Shortly before the new repressive laws promulgated in August by the Taliban, it was the return of stoning that went unnoticed. “We discovered several cases, including one more than two weeks ago in Rod, it was a young woman married to a fighter who fled. She was stoned to death in the village square,” testifies for The Point Chékéba Hachemi, the first female Afghan diplomat and internationally involved in the fight against violence against women.
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Last March, Hibatullah Akhunzada, the Taliban’s supreme leader, announced on Afghan radio RTA the return of public stoning for “adulterous” women. Shortly after, on August 21, the “Ministry of Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue,” created by the Taliban in 2021, drafted a “morality law,” published by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Justice.
“The content of this law is not new, in reality, the 114 pages only repeat the various decrees published by the Ministry of […] Read more
