Taliban Execute Man and Woman for Alleged Adultery in Badakhshan (2018)
Document- Date
- ۹ اسفند ۱۳۹۶
- Year of Incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Badakhshan: Yamgan
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.4874881626815
Longitude: 70.8741760253906
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Yamgan
- Town Village
- Yamgan district, Badakhshan province
- Types of Incident
- Execution
- Shooting
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Denying a fair trial
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Unknown: Persecution
- Unknown: Summary execution
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On February 28, 2018, Taliban fighters shot and killed a man and woman in Yamgan district after accusing them of adultery. The woman was killed at her home while the man was executed in a nearby garden. This incident represents the Taliban's enforcement of their interpretation of Islamic law through extrajudicial executions based on moral accusations.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 2
sorted by
Date added
0 relationships, 0 entities