 Afghan widow given more than 200 lashes before being shot dead by Taliban for adultery was PREGNANT 
 
 
 
 By Mail Foreign Service 
 
 
 
 Last updated at 4:51 PM on 10th August 2010 
 
 The Afghan woman publicly executed by Taliban militants for alleged adultery was pregnant, it emerged today. Bibi Sanubar, 35, was kept in captivity for three days before she was shot dead in a public trial on Sunday by a local Taliban commander in the Qadis district of the rural western province Badghis. She was first punished with 200 lashes in public before being shot, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Mohammad Sayeedi told AFP. "She was shot in the head in public while she was still pregnant," Sayeedi said. Sayeedi said a local Taliban commander, Mohammad Yousuf, carried out the execution before the woman's body was dumped in an area under government control. When in power from 1996 until 2001, the radical Taliban staged public stonings or lashings of those found to have sex outside marriage. A local official said: 'She had an illegal relationship with a man who was not her husband.' All trials must take place in an authorised court observing every single measure of justice," said Rahimi. Since their ouster in 2001, the hardline Taliban militants have executed many people they accused of spying for foreign forces, including at least one woman who was shot dead in Kandahar.
– The Taliban publicly flogged a pregnant Afghan widow some 200 times before shooting her to death for having sex. Her lover escaped. Bibi Sanubar, 35, "was shot in the head in public while she was still pregnant," deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Mohammad Sayeedi told Agence France Presse. Officials found out about the execution because her body was dumped in an area under government control. This was not the way she should have been punished," said a local Afghan official. "She should have been arrested and we would have had proof that she had an illegal affair," he told the Daily Mail. "Then she should come to court and face justice." Sanubar could have faced up to three years in prison under "conventional" Afghan law. The Taliban frequently stoned or lashed people for sex outside of marriage during their harsh rule in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.