{"id":84542,"date":"2017-04-16T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T06:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/couple-killed-by-taliban-over-adultery-in-logar\/"},"modified":"2017-04-16T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T06:37:37","slug":"couple-killed-by-taliban-over-adultery-in-logar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/couple-killed-by-taliban-over-adultery-in-logar\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple killed by Taliban over adultery in Logar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"383\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/April\/16\/logar.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW): In an extrajudicial execution, the Taliban have shot a man and a woman dead over alleged adultery in Logar province.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have said the Taliban publicly executed the couple on Saturday in Aab-Bazak area of Mohmmad Agha district for allegedly having extramarital affair. A number of residents have acknowledged both were having extramarital affair. Salim Saleh, provincial governor&rsquo;s spokesman, confirmed the public execution of the couple in Aab-Bazak area. &ldquo;So far, the incident is not clear, but police have started investigation into the matter&rdquo;, informed Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have confirmed the execution, and have said the couple were killed for having extra marital affair after for which a Taliban court passed the judgment of capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUL-I-ALAM (SW): In an extrajudicial execution, the Taliban have shot a man and a woman dead over alleged adultery in Logar province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}