PRESS RELEASE
August 17, 2010
http://president.gov.af/Contents/88/Documents/2118/stoning_eng.html
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Office of the President
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PRESIDENT KARZAI CONDEMNS STONING BY TALIBAN OF TWO YOUNG AFGHANS
President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned the stoning to death of a man and a woman by the Taliban in Northern Province of Kunduz calling it an “unforgivable crime”.
Reports indicate that the two, who were set to marry, were publicly executed by stoning by the Taliban on charges of having illicit relations.
Calling the act an unjustifiable crime, President Karzai said the ruling to stone the two young Afghans by an illegal armed group without a fair trial runs contrary to all human and Islamic principles.
President Karzai instructed security and justice institutions to put into use all possible resources in bringing to justice the perpetrators.