A member of the Afghan junior women’s national volleyball team was recently beheaded by the Taliban, with her coach saying that gruesome photos of her severed head were plastered on social media.
Mahjabin Hakimi was considered pone of the best players in the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club prior to the Taliban takeover of Kabul, where female athletes now have to fear for their lives as the regime forces women to cease playing sports — or else.
In an interview with the Persian Independent, coach Suraya Afzali, using a pseudonym due to safety concerns, confirmed that Hakimi had been beheaded earlier this month, and that no one other than her family had known until recently due to threats from the Taliban warning them not to talk to anyone about it.
Her date of death has been questioned though, with reports and a death certificate circulating online suggesting that she was killed on August 13, days before the Taliban took control of Kabul, according to the New York Post.
