Kneeling next to a ditch, deep in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, a 22-year-old woman draws her last breath in a ‘desert court’ before she is shot in the back with an AK-47.
Her executioner? Likely her hardline militant husband, in what the Taliban consider an ‘honour killing’.
It took less than an hour to decide Najiba had been adulterous – although it has been suggested this accusation was fabricated to protect her husband’s reputation – a crime which deserves corporal punishment under the Taliban’s strict interpretation of Sharia law.
Fourteen years on from her death, little is known about her story, like many
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