Afghan court sentences seven men to death for gang rape
- 10 years ago
The men, seven of them, are wearing blindfolds as they are led into an Afghanistan courtroom.
They've been convicted of raping and robbing a group of women returning from a wedding.
Within minutes, Judge Saifullah Mujadidi delivers a sentence that stuns the courtroom --- death. All seven men will be put to death.
In a case that has shaken the capital, Kabul, police say the men, dressed in police uniforms and carrying assault rifles, dragged four women from a convoy of cars -- in which they were traveling with their families...
...and then raped them in a field in the middle of the night.
Out on the streets, hundreds of people chant, "death to rapists."
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST, NADIA BEHBODI, SAYING:
"We basically don't want any compromise on their front because here in Afghanistan it is an Islamic society and if a woman committed this kind of crime then she would be stoned so what we want, without any further delay of thei
They've been convicted of raping and robbing a group of women returning from a wedding.
Within minutes, Judge Saifullah Mujadidi delivers a sentence that stuns the courtroom --- death. All seven men will be put to death.
In a case that has shaken the capital, Kabul, police say the men, dressed in police uniforms and carrying assault rifles, dragged four women from a convoy of cars -- in which they were traveling with their families...
...and then raped them in a field in the middle of the night.
Out on the streets, hundreds of people chant, "death to rapists."
(SOUNDBITE) (English) CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST, NADIA BEHBODI, SAYING:
"We basically don't want any compromise on their front because here in Afghanistan it is an Islamic society and if a woman committed this kind of crime then she would be stoned so what we want, without any further delay of thei