Afghan Taliban Kill Young Woman, Man for Eloping
Young woman, man who tried to elope killed by Afghan Taliban firing squad in front of crowd
The Nimroz governor decried the fact that a three-person council of clerics operating outside the state's judicial system would level the death penalty.
"Through legal channels it would take months to prove such a case," Azad said. "How can these people make a decision in four days and kill them? No one has the right to kill anybody without the decision of a court."
Pecha, the woman, was an ethnic Pashtun from the region and a member of the Sunni sect of Islam, Azad said. Aziz was from the Shiite sect, Azad said, though he didn't know his ethnicity.
Nader Nadery, a spokesman for the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, said the killings were the "worst act against mankind" and "completely against the principles of human rights."
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