Standing in a hole dug into a barren Afghan mountainside, you can just about see Rukhshana’s face poking above the surface.
Surrounding her is a group of Taliban picking up rocks from the ground and, one by one, hurling them at the terrified young woman.
Her agonised cries grow louder and louder as the barrage of rocks strikes her with sickening thuds.
In the background, men shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they relentlessly stone their victim.
The 19-year-old Afghan girl did not survive the barbaric 2015 stoning, which was captured in a video filmed by an anonymous witness and obtained by Radio Free Afghanistan.
The disturbing scenes, capturing
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