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Taliban insurgents stone a couple to death for alleged adultery in northern Afghanistan

Video footage shows Siddqa, 25, covered
completely by a blue burkha, buried up to her
waist in the ground as a crowd of people watches on
Horrific video footage has emerged of Taliban insurgents stoning a couple to death for alleged adultery in northern Afghanistan.

Hundreds of villagers can be seen on the video standing around as 19-year-old Siddqa, is buried up to her waist in a hole in the ground.

Two mullahs pass sentence before the crowd begins to throw rocks at her head and body as she desperately tries to crawl free.

After the 25-year-old collapsed to the ground, covered in blood, miraculously still alive, a Taliban fighter then shot her three times.

Her alleged lover, Khayyam, is then marched in front of the crowd with his hands tied behind his back.

He was blindfolded and crouched down close to the ground as he tried to protect his body from the stones.

But he is battered to the floor by a barrage of rocks, before falling silent.

The stoning took place in the district of Dashte Archi, in Kunduz, last August.

Siddqa had run away after being sold into an arranged marriage for $9,000. She eventually ran off with her older lover.

The area remains under Taliban control, but regional police have said those behind the stoning will be charged.

Police chief General Daoud Daoud told the BBC: 'Special police investigators will be sent there, we will find them and they will be brought to justice.'

Most of the video has not been shown because it was too graphic.

The couple are believed to have eloped to Pakistan, but were lured back with the false promise that they would not be harmed.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid defended the stoning.

He told the BBC: 'Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law.

'There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.'

Source: Mail Online, January 27, 2011


Video of the execution (Warning: graphic content)



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