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Afghan couple stoned to death over alleged illicit affair
A man and a woman were on Wednesday stoned to death for allegedly having an illicit sexual affair deemed illegal under Sharia rule in Afghanistan.
A Taliban official in the north-eastern Badakhshan province who confirmed the incident, said the couple who were not married to each other had confessed to having an illegal sexual relations before a Sharia Court which sentenced them to death.
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“They confessed before a Sharia Court that they had illegal relations and they had done this two to three times,” the local official said.
The province’s Director of Information and Culture, Muezuddin Ahmadi, however, said the issue was under investigation and promised serious action against the people behind the stoning.
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