Afghan Woman Kills Self Before Taliban Could Stone Her For Leaving Home

Monday, 17 October 2022newsdesk

A woman in Afghanistan's Ghor province died by suicide before Taliban forces could kill her for running away from home, local media reported citing local Taliban.

New Delhi, 17 October 2022

According to Khaama Press, the Taliban planned to stone the woman, who ran away from home with a married man, on Friday, but before that, she took her life to avoid public humiliation. As per news report of NDTV, the man with whom the woman ran away from home was executed on Thursday, October 13, the officials added. Abdul Rahman, the acting spokesperson for the provincial police chief of the Taliban for Ghor, said that the woman was sentenced to publicly stoning due to the lack of a women's prison, Khaama Press reported.

Source - NDTV