Friday, January 23, 2026 - A young woman who secretly trained girls in taekwondo in Afghanistan may be stoned to de@th, for her actions.
Khadija Ahmadzada, 22, was arrested on January 10 in Herat
for defying the Taliban’s ban on women playing sport.
Authorities discovered she was teaching students the martial
art in a hidden courtyard at her home.
Her detention has prompted fears from activists that she has
already been sentenced to de@th for the illicit activity.
The campaigners are desperately trying to raise awareness of
the Taliban crackdown in hopes her k!lling can be averted.
British-Afghan activist Shabnam Nasimi said
on Instagram: "She refused to accept that being female is a
crime.
"That quiet act of defiance has come at a price, when
the Taliban’s morality police out, witnesses said they raided her home and
detained her.
"There are rumours from people around Khadija that the
court has ruled on an extreme de@th sentence stoning – for the crime of
practicing and playing sport.
"For anyone who doesn’t know what stoning is, it’s when
stones are thrown at a living human being until they bleed, collapse and
d!e."
Nasimi added that witnesses claim Ahmadzada and her father were dragged out of
their home before being held for more than a week.
She said that Ahmadzada’s family have reportedly heard
nothing from the 22-year-old for longer than a week.
The activist called on her followers to "draw attention
to ‘flood the internet’ with Ahmadzada’s name in an effort to ‘save her
life".
Nasimi said: "When the international spotlight lands on
a regime like this, they hesitate.
"Not because they grow a conscience, but because they
fear consequences, pressure, exposure and intervention.
"If Khadija becomes famous enough, they may back
off."
An entire generation of Afghan women and girls lost
their freedom when the Taliban took control of the country in 2021.
Girls have been turned away from school, forced to veil
their face and body at all times in public, are not allowed to look at men they
aren’t related or married to, or even be seen in their own homes from
neighbouring properties.
Even the sound of women singing or simply speaking
to and hearing each other has been banned, as part of the Taliban’s
"vice prevention strategy".
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