Five Afghan men were hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women despite the United Nations and human rights groups criticising the trial and calling for new president Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions.
“Five men in connection to the Paghman incident and one other big criminal were executed this afternoon,” Rahmatullah Nazari, the deputy attorney general, told reporters.
The rapes took place in Paghman, outside Kabul.
There was no immediate comment from the office of President Ashraf Ghani, who faced strong public pressure to not stay the executions after he came to power last week.
“The court’s verdict has been implemented and all the convicts have been executed — five from the Paghman case, plus Habib Istalifi, who was head of a notorious kidnapping gang,” the attorney general’s chief of staff Atta Mohammad Noori told reporters.
The men were executed in Pul-e-Charkhi prison near Kabul.
The brutal attack in August provoked a national outcry with many Afghans demanding the men be hanged, and then-president Hamid Karzai signed their death sentences shortly before leaving office.
Where is Human Rights organization etc; who has forced our govt to carry out death sentences by revoking moratorium on death rows…why this discrimination ?
You defend scum of this type ? Hanging is something very humane. These people should be pelted with stones till death to make an example out of them. How dare they destroy the honor of our sisters and daughters.
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