Taliban claim security, but failed to protect a woman’s life in court.
A woman was murdered in a public session of the Taliban’s appeals court in Herat, an incident that once again exposed the Taliban’s weakness in providing security and the valuelessness of women’s lives in their system.
The woman was the wife of Abdul Rahman Moradi, a former member of the Herat Provincial Council, and the Taliban had brought her to court for trial.
According to sources, Moradi’s brother killed the woman in the same public session, while the Taliban were only onlookers.
This is despite the Taliban having previously said that Moradi had committed suicide; but her family blamed her husband for her death.
Now, justice in the Taliban system has become a scene for family blood feuds instead of implementing the law.
This incident showed that in the eyes of the Taliban, women are not only deprived of basic rights, but are not even protected by the law.
The murder of a woman in the formal judicial environment clearly shows that the Taliban still do not accept women as “full human beings” and ignore their rights.
