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Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan over accusation of adultery

By Jethro Mullen and Masoud Popalzai, CNN

Updated 4:47 PM ET, Wed November 4, 2015

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Story highlights

A Taliban leader ordered woman stoned to death after she fled forced marriage, official says
The stoning comes months after a woman was brutally killed by a mob in Kabul
The U.N. has raised concern over "the prevalence of violence against women" in the country

(CNN)The men surround the woman as she stands in a hole dug into the stony ground, only her head pokes above the surface. Then they begin to pick up rocks and hurl them at her again and again from close range.

Her agonized cries grow louder as the barrage of stones intensifies.

The barbaric killing took place in a Taliban-controlled village in central Afghanistan last week, according to the provincial governor. Video of it, apparently filmed on a cell phone, has circulated on social media.

The 19-year-old woman, identified as Rokhshana, had been forced to marry against her will and recently fled with another man, said Seema Joyenda, the governor of Ghor province. The couple were caught after two days, and the Taliban leader of the village ordered that Rokhshana be stoned to death for adultery, Joyenda said.

The killing underlines the widespread problem of violence against women in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, the brutal killing of a 27-year-old woman by a mob in Kabul, the capital, stirred outrage both inside the country and around the globe.

Provincial government powerless to respond

Joyenda, one of two female governors in Afghanistan, said she cried as she watched the video of Rokhshana's killing.

"It was really inhumane," she told CNN.

But she said provincial authorities had so far not been able to do anything about the atrocity in the village of Aurdak, which the Taliban have controlled for nearly three years.

Joyenda said she has asked President Ashraf Ghani for reinforcements to help retake places like Aurdak but doesn't know when she will have enough security forces and weapons.

12 photos: Unveiled: Afghan women past and present

An Afghan woman, dressed in western-style clothing and standing comfortably around men, takes a photograph at the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This photograph was taken circa 1955.

A burqa-clad woman crosses the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in September 2002 at the Kadam Safar border crossing.

Taken in 1962, this picture shows Afghan women walking along a street in Kabul. Four of them are wearing burqas, whereas one walks comfortably among them in European-style dress. "When the mujahideen-led government replaced the Soviets in 1992, new restrictions on dress were formalized," says Mosadiq, "and obviously the Taliban's takeover in 1994 was the final nail in the coffin for any kind of independent dress for both men and women."

Women wait to receive food aid during a U.N. World Food Program scheme in Kabul in December 2001. "Even inside Afghanistan, female dress code varies hugely between regions," says Mosadiq. "You'll find the blue burqas across the whole country, but in urban centers like Kabul many women will only wear a hijab. In the north a white burqa is common, and in some Pashtun areas you'll find women in colorful dresses and just a headscarf."

A nomad girl shows off her elaborate costume which is unique to women from the Afghan Pashtun ethnic group to which nomads also belong. The date when this photograph was taken is unknown.

An Afghan Kuchi (Pashtun nomad) girl covers her face as she attends a class on October 27, 2010. She is being taught in a tent near the ruins of the Darul Aman Palace on the outskirts of Kabul.

Knee-length skirts, high heels and walking freely down the street: it's hard to believe that this was Kabul in June 1978. Browse through this gallery and see how dramatically women's dress in Afghanistan has changed over the years.

Covered from head to toe, women walk on the outskirts of Jalalabad, accompanied by a liberally-dressed boy, in October 2013. Horia Mosadiq, Amnesty International's Afghanistan Researcher, says that although there are not any legal restrictions on women's dress code in Afghanistan, considerable social and cultural pressures force them to wear a burqa or fully cover themselves. "They would simply be targeted otherwise," she says, "by the Taliban, their family members, or even passers-by on the street."

Male and female Afghan students studying computing technology sit together and listen to a female Soviet teacher (center) in the Computing Center of the Polytechnical Institute in Kabul in 1981. The Soviet Union had invaded the country in December 1979.

Afghan female university students, dressed in the traditional blue burqa, attend a math class under a tent at the Nangarhar University campus in Jalalabad in September 2012. Under Taliban rule, between 1994 and 2001 <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/opinion/afghanistan-women-rights-barr/">women were banned from education and work</a>, even from leaving their homes unaccompanied.

This picture taken in 1981 shows a well-groomed woman and her children on the streets of Kabul. "We used to be a fairly modern country," says Mosadiq.

A young boy stands among a group of veiled women waiting to receive food aid during a U.N. World Food Program distribution in Kabul in November 2001. "I myself remember the mujahideen's takeover of Kabul on 27 April 1992," says Mosadiq. "On 26 April I wore a miniskirt and a sleeveless shirt, but the day after I was terrified to walk outside without being fully covered."

Attacks on women and disregard for their rights have been widely documented by international organizations in Afghanistan.

"The prevalence of violence against women and harmful practices continues to be of serious concern," said a report in April by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

A report in the same month by Amnesty Internationalraised concerns about the persecution of women's rights activists in the country, not only by the Taliban and tribal warlords, but also by government officials.

CNN's Masoud Popalzai reported from Kabul, and Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong.

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