Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 15 Oct 2022, 03:39 am Print
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Ghor: A woman in Ghor province, in central Afghanistan, committed suicide before being stoned to death by the Taliban forces for running away from home, an episode showing the troubles faced bby women in the South Asian country.
The Taliban planned to stone the woman who ran away from home with a man on Friday, October 14, but she took her own life to avoid being punished in front of everyone, as the Taliban had arranged for her to be stoned publicly, Khaama Press reported.
According to local Taliban officials, the man with whom the woman ran away from home was a married man. The Taliban executed the married man on Thursday, October 13, the officials added.
Abdul Rahman, the spokesperson for the provincial police chief of the Taliban for Ghor, told Khaama Press that the incident, in which a woman sentenced to publicly stoning committed suicide before receiving the punishment, was due to the lack of women’s prison in the province’s Dolaina district.
According to the Taliban security official, the woman strangled herself with a scarf, ending her life before receiving the punishment.
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