Court Sentence Seven Men To death after Afghan gang-rape ( see photo)

Police said a large group of men, some of them wearing police uniforms and others armed with automatic weapons, stopped the women as they were returning from a wedding with their families.
Four of the women were forced from the vehicles and dragged into nearby fields where they were assaulted, within earshot of their relatives. For a crime believed to have stunned the Nation, a court has sentenced seven men in Afghanistan to death for the gang-rape and robbery of a group of women




“Based on criminal law these individuals are sentenced to the severest punishment, which is the death sentence,” he told the heavily guarded courtroom, according to Reuters. Women are often the victims of violence in Afghanistan but campaigners say much of it takes place in the home. Officials said they could not recall an incident like this happening before in Kabul.
During a summary trial held on Sunday and which was televised across Afghanistan, Judge Safihullah Mujadidi convicted the men of armed robbery and sexual assault. There have been demands for the men, aged between 19 and 35, to be executed quickly but they can appeal the case to a higher court.