“We will whip the women. We will stone them to death in public for adultery”. It is the literal message that the leader of the Taliban regime has spread. Without any shame, they have announced that stoning to death will return to Afghanistan, where it was banned in 2001. 23 years later, this aberrant practice (in which minors can also participate) represents one more nail in the coffin for girls and women in the country.

A group of men, in public, will whip and throw stones at women accused of adultery. An aberrant and inhuman punishment which, however, does not surprise organizations like Amnesty International. Olatz Cacho, spokesperson for the organization in Spain, considers it this way: “We have been seeing how, little by little, the Taliban have been promoting a catalog of very severe restrictions that regulate all areas of the lives of Afghan women and girls to condemn them to live as refugees in their houses”.

Since they came to power in Afghanistan in 2021, women’s rights have continued to decline. They have prohibited them from studying, working, moving freely through the streets without a man and have imposed very strict dress standards for them.

All justified in a fundamentalist and radical interpretation of Sharia law (which, according to Islam, governs the code of conduct and morals of citizens). Fatal stonings actually mean a stone against the dignity of Afghan women.