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  1. Nov 2, 2015 · RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan has obtained video footage from an eyewitness that appears to show the brutal stoning last week of a 19-year-old Afghan woman in the central province of Ghor. The ...

  2. Mar 28, 2024 · In the past year alone, Taliban-appointed judges ordered 417 public floggings and executions, according to Afghan Witness, a research group monitoring human rights in Afghanistan. Of these, 57 ...

  3. Apr 3, 2024 · Women in Afghanistan are once again facing death by stoning for adultery. The ruling Taliban announced the return of this ancient punishment. Since the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops ...

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  5. May 8, 2024 · Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women. The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes" — reiterated in ...

  6. May 11, 2023 · GENEVA (11 May 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at a recent announcement by the de facto Supreme Court in Afghanistan sanctioning the use of punishments including stoning, flogging and burying under a wall. “Stoning people to death or burying them under a wall constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment,” the experts said. “These cruel ...

  7. May 8, 2024 · AFP via Getty Images. The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes" — reiterated in a statement this year by their supreme leader. Above: In 2015 ...

  8. Dec 2, 2021 · Certain elements in the video also correspond with footage embedded in this report by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) on November 2, 2015. "RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan has obtained video footage from an eyewitness that appears to show the brutal stoning last week of a 19-year-old Afghan woman in the central province of Ghor", the report reads.

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