KABUL HELL!: Taliban ‘behead women’s youth volleyball player’
Mahjabin Hakimi, a rising star of Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club, was mercilessly slaughtered by the jihadists earlier this month, her coach told The Persian Independent.
The girl’s death is only now being reported because the Islamist militants threatened her family not to tell anyone what had happened.
After the sickening photos of her severed head were reportedly posted online, the coach decided he should speak out.
‘All the players of the volleyball team and the rest of the women athletes are in a bad situation and in despair and fear,’ he said.
‘Everyone has been forced to flee and live in unknown places.’
Mahjabin played volleyball for the Kabul club before the Taliban seized power from the US-backed government at the end of August.
The coach said that she was one of only two girls who had not managed to escape Afghanistan.
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Conflicting claims on social media said that Mahjabin had been mysteriously killed a week before the Taliban seized Kabul.
Reports that she was beheaded have fuelled fears among other female athletes who have gone into hiding.
Under its strict interpretation of Sharia law, the Taliban does not permit women to play sport or allow them to participate in work or education.
Those who defy the terror group’s edicts risk torture and death.
The Afghan women’s national volleyball team has petitioned foreign organisations for help to get them out of the country but have so far been unsuccessful.
Zahra Fayazi, a member of senior team who fled to the UK in August, previously described how a fellow player had been murdered by the Taliban.
‘Our players who were living in the provinces had to leave and live in other places,’ she told the BBC last month.
‘They even burned their sports equipment to save themselves and their families. They didn’t want them to keep anything related to sport. They are scared.
‘Many of our players who are from provinces were threatened many times by their relatives who are Taliban and Taliban followers.
‘The Taliban asked our players’ families to not allow their girls to do sport, otherwise they will be faced with unexpected violence.’