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There was a young woman who left her home in Mycrorayan in Kabul, Afghanistan for
Peshawar after the January 1994 fighting and told Amnesty International of the
following situation. "One day when my father was walking past a building complex he
heard screams of women coming from an apartment block which had just been captured
by forces of General Dostum. He was told by the people that Dostum's guards had
entered the block and were looting the property and raping the women."

The following story comes out of Iran. "On August 10, 1994, in the city of Arak,
Iran, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the
religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution.
The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck
full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the
stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from
the ditch and......

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