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| Afghan police rescue woman from Taliban stoning |
| 2013-12-11 |
| [Pak Daily Times] KUNDUZ: Police in a remote northern Afghan village rescued a woman from being stoned to death after she was condemned by the Taliban for allegedly cheating on her husband, officials said on Tuesday. Talibs, who often run informal justice systems in rural Afghanistan, handed down the death penalty on the woman after her husband accused her of having an affair. "When police rescued her, she was locked in a room in a compound that was used as a Taliban base," Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, police front man for Kunduz province, told AFP. He said the rescue operation in the village, a krazed killer stronghold, was launched after the woman's relatives told police the Taliban had sentenced her to death. The husband, a supporter of the Islamic bully boy group, handed her over to the bully boyz on Friday. The incident happened in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz, a province where the Taliban have had an active presence in recent years after they were ousted from power nationally in 2001. |
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