Mohammad Daud, a 34-year-old from Herat’s Pashtun Zarghun district, was the man Taliban fighters shot dead and then hanged in public on Friday — an act that has drawn outrage from Afghans and rights advocates, who condemned it as a summary execution and a desecration of human dignity.
Videos from the scene show Taliban members tying Daud’s body to an old tank at Herat’s busy Kandahar Gate, kicking his corpse as crowds gathered to film. A sign reading “Death to the Liberation Movement of Afghanistan” was placed on the body.
