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| Taliban beheaded female volleyball player, posted photos online, coach says |
| 2021-10-22 |
| [NY Post] An Afghan volleyball player on the girls’ national team was beheaded by the Taliban — with gruesome photos of her severed head posted on social media, according to her coach. Mahjabin Hakimi, one of the best players in the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club, was slaughtered in the capital city of Kabul as troops searched for female sports players, her coach told the Persian Independent. She was killed earlier this month, but her death remained mostly hidden because her family had been threatened not to talk, claimed the coach, using a pseudonym, Suraya Afzali, due to safety fears. Images of Hakimi’s severed neck were published on Afghan social media, according to the paper, which did not say how old she was. Conflicting reports online suggested that happened earlier, with an apparent death certificate suggesting she was killed Aug. 13 — the final days of the Taliban’s insurgency before seizing Kabul. However, the Payk Investigative Journalism Center said its sources also confirmed that Hakimi "was ’beheaded’ by the Taliban in Kabul." The governing group has yet to comment, Payk Media said. Afzali told the Persian Independent that she was speaking out to highlight the risk that female sports players face, with only two of the women’s national volleyball team having managed to flee the country. "All the players of the volleyball team and the rest of the women athletes are in a bad situation and in despair and fear," she told the paper. "Everyone has been forced to flee and live in unknown places." |
| Posted by:Ulaise Black8626 |
| #14 Hey, P()ssy Burkas. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-10-22 19:51 |
| #13 Send over the Code Pink Intramural Volleyball Club as well. That group might actually hold a justifiable reason for burkas. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-10-22 17:41 |
| #12 Send over the Code Pink Intramural Volleyball Club as well. Have a little Round Robin Tourney. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-10-22 16:45 |
| #11 Don't feminists tell us all the time they can stop the world by crossing their legs? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-22 13:28 |
| #10 These Afghan women should either commit suicide or start castrating their men. |
| Posted by: Wren 2021-10-22 13:14 |
| #9 WNBA victory parade. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-22 12:31 |
| #8 ^ Agree. Her schedule is clear since she's not doing any more Subway ads (backlash hurt) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-10-22 11:48 |
| #7 ^I second that. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-10-22 11:46 |
| #6 Hey, at least we established a Gender Studies department at Kabul U. before we skedaddled. Seriously, could Megan Rapinoe be persuaded to visit AFG for a friendly? |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-10-22 10:19 |
| #5 Maybe they could...you know...fight for their OWN country...so that if anyone else ever cared to join them in the fight there would be an actual chance of winning. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2021-10-22 10:16 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Greng Black3494 2021-10-22 09:44 |
| #3 Oops!, Freudian slip. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-10-22 08:34 |
| #2 I guess someone wanted to get ahead. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-10-22 08:32 |
| #1 (sarc/ON) Totes uncool, but hey - State was Twittering the other day about proper pronouns; so we're fighting the good fight. (sarc/OFF) This isn't going to end well. At all. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-10-22 06:05 |