Taliban To Resume Stoning Women To Death In Public

The Taliban’s Supreme Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue, Akhtar Makoli reported for The Telegraph.

Women who are accused of adultery will reportedly be flogged and stoned to death in public. I Illustration: Abu'l-Hasan Ghaffari Wikimedia Commons

“You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the weekend, addressing Western officials.

“But we will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public,” he declared in his harshest comments since taking over Kabul in August 2021.

“These are all against your democracy but we will continue doing it. We both say we defend human rights – we do it as God’s representative and you as the devil’s.”

Afghanistan’s state TV, now under Taliban control, broadcasts voice messages purporting to be from Akhundzada, who has never been seen in public aside from a few old portraits.

He is believed to be based in southern Kandahar, the stronghold of the Taliban.

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