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Afghanistan Resumes State Executions

HeadlineApr 27, 2004

In Afghanistan, human rights groups are condemning the country for carrying out the first state execution since the fall of the Taliban more than two years ago. It emerged today that a former military commander was shot in the head at a jail outside Kabul last week after he was convicted of murder. Amnesty International says the man [[[ Abdullah Shah ]]] was denied basic standards of fairness. The group said it feared the once-powerful commander might have been executed out to remove a key witness to human rights abuses carried out by several commanders now in power. Amnesty has urged Afghanistan to ban judicial executions.

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