Man, woman stoned to death in Afghanistan for adultery: Taliban
By
Michael Sheridan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, August 16th 2010, 11:15 AM
Warsameh/AP
A man and a woman who allegedly committed adultery were stoned to death in a village controlled by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A man and woman who were accused of carrying on an adulterous affair in
Afghanistan have been stoned to death.
The barbaric act is the latest in a string of archaic sentences handed down by the
Taliban, which practices a strict adherence to Islamic law.
"Two people were stoned to death by Taliban in
Mullah Quli village late yesterday,"
Mohammad Ayob, the governor of
Imam Sahib district in
Kunduz province, said on Monday, AFP reports.
The couple, both in their 20s, had their hands tied behind their backs and stood in a field as several people among 100 local villagers threw rocks at them until they died.
"The Taliban convicted both to stoning to death, some from the crowd started throwing stones at the couple," said
Abdul Satar, a resident of the town, according to AFP.
The man, 28, was married, while the woman, 23, was engaged. The couple allegedly confessed to having had an affair with one another.
The Taliban, which routinely carried out such sentences during its rule of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, recently flogged and stoned to death a pregnant woman for allegedly committing adultery.
With News Wire Services