This month in an Afghanistan sports stadium crowded with thousands of people, soldiers with the hardline Muslim Taliban movement carried out a criminal sentence — they gave a young man and woman accused of having premarital sex 100 lashes.
The man reportedly collapsed during the whipping. This comes on heels of reports that the Taliban plans to force Hindus within Afghanistan to wear yellow so that they may be more easily identified.
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Taliban beat unwed couple accused of having sex. Feminist Daily News Wire, May 23, 2001.