Acceptance: Days after the Taliban’s interim government assured no public executions and hanging bodies in Afghanistan, militants from the group allegedly beheaded a member of the Afghan junior women’s national volleyball team.
During an interview with The Persian IndependentThe coach of the volleyball team claimed that a female player was killed by the Taliban in October. She also alleged that the gruesome killing was unknown to others as rebels threatened her family not to talk about it.
The victim, identified as Mahjabeen Hakimi, played for Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club before the new Taliban regime took control of Kabul.
The alleged incident came days after the Council of Ministers in the Taliban interim government led by Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund instructed local officials, unless directed by the “Supreme Court”, to carry out public executions in Afghanistan. And the bodies were instructed to avoid hanging.
A few days back, pictures of the athlete with a severed head and a bloodied neck went viral on social media.
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The coach has also said that women athletes across Afghanistan face a serious security threat and that the Taliban have chased and searched the homes of many of them in different cities.
He also alleged that many female athletes, who have competed in foreign and domestic competitions, are in grave danger.
The coach further said that after the Taliban action, only two players from the team were able to leave Afghanistan through individual action and the rest of the team members in the country are currently in danger and terror.
With the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, women’s participation in all activities, including sports, politics and social sectors, has ceased.
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