Adulterers may be stoned to death under new Afghan law, official says

Afghanistan continues it's plunge back into Islamic barbarity even before NATO troops have left the country.  The plight of Afghani women will be worse than before with the rebound of the fanatical Taliban and a government that is adding stoning for adultery to it's legal system.  There is no end to the depravity and barbarity of Islam.

FROM TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES.COM:

Adulterers may be stoned to death under new Afghan law, official says

Reuters | Nov 25, 2013, 07.42 PM IST

Billions have been invested on promoting human rights in Afghanistan over more than 12 years of war and donors fear that hard won progress, particularly for women, may be eroding.

KABUL: Death by stoning for convicted adulterers is being written into Afghan law, a senior official said on Monday, the latest sign that human rights won at great cost since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 are rolling back as foreign troops withdraw.

"We are working on the draft of a sharia penal code where the punishment for adultery, if there are four eyewitnesses, is stoning," said Rohullah Qarizada, who is part of the sharia Islamic law committee working on the draft and head of the Afghan Independent Bar Association.

Billions have been invested on promoting human rights in Afghanistan over more than 12 years of war and donors fear that hard won progress, particularly for women, may be eroding.

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