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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ruchi Kumar and Rukhshana reporters

Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar
Activists say the announcement has condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s. Photograph: Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty

The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.

Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.

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