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Taliban beheads rising female volleyball player and posts photo online, coach says
Mahjabin Hakimi, a member of the Afghanistan ladies’s youth volleyball staff, has reportedly been beheaded by the Taliban within the nation’s capital of Kabul due to its objection to ladies’s sport.
After the murder of Hakimi, the group is then alleged to have posted footage of her decapitating head on social media, presumably as a brutal warning to others.
Conflicting studies have emerged in regards to the dying of the younger lady.
A dying certificates that emerged confirmed she had presumably died per week earlier than the Taliban took management following the retreat by the US and its allies from the nation.
Different claims state that the younger athlete took her personal life.
A leaked picture of her physique confirmed wounds to her neck, nevertheless it wasn’t clear if a blade or a ligature level had prompted this.
Nevertheless, the Afghanistan based mostly Payk Investigative Journalism Centre mentioned that its sources had confirmed that Mahjabin had been “beheaded by the Taliban in Kabul”.
In an interview with the Persian Unbiased, one in every of Hakimi’s coaches – talking underneath a pseudonym – mentioned that she was killed in early October however that it had been saved a secret as her household had been threatened to not speak about it.
Dozens of feminine athletes have fled Afghanistan in worry of their lives for the reason that Taliban swept again into energy in August because the preexisting Afghan Authorities collapsed.
The Taliban has banned all sports activities for females since taking energy, and have but to permit women to return to highschool for an schooling.
Solely two of the ladies’s youth volleyball staff’s gamers managed to flee Afghanistan, it has been reported.
“All of the gamers of the volleyball staff and the remainder of the ladies athletes are in a foul scenario and in despair and worry,” the coach mentioned, in response to the Persian Unbiased.
“Everybody has been compelled to flee and stay in unknown locations.”
Hakimi performed for Kabul Municipality Volleyball Membership earlier than the Taliban seized energy.
Afghanistan’s Chef de Mission on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Arian Sadiqi, fears for the lives of 12 Para athletes who’re nonetheless caught within the nation and is fearful that those that didn’t escape when the Taliban seized energy have been forgotten about.
“If these women don’t get assist quickly, they could fall into the fingers of the Taliban and should get killed,” Sadiqi mentioned, in response to Insidethegames.
Athletes Noorja Najafi, Rahela Haidari, Nargis Masomi and Benafsha Najafi have all referred to as on European international locations to assist evacuate them from Afghanistan.
“The correct to schooling has been taken away from us,” mentioned Najafi in a video.
“We can not go to college safely or research safely as a result of we’re disabled,” Najafi continues within the video.
“With out sporting a hijab, we can not stroll or exit.
“We’re very fearful that our lives are at risk.”
The ladies’s nationwide volleyball staff has petitioned for international organisations to assist get them in a foreign country, however have to date been unsuccessful.
“Our gamers who have been dwelling within the provinces needed to depart and stay elsewhere,” Zahra Fayazi, a coach for Afghanistan, informed the BBC in September.
“They even burned their sports activities tools to save lots of themselves and their households.
“They did not need them to maintain something associated to sport.
“They’re scared.
“Lots of our gamers who’re from provinces have been threatened many instances by their kin who’re Taliban and Taliban followers.
“The Taliban requested our gamers’ households to not permit their women to do sport, in any other case they are going to be confronted with surprising violence.”
