Zarmina | France 2 | Envoyé Spécial

The image went around the world. A woman, accused of having killed her husband, was executed in public in the Kabul stadium. She was wearing a burka. Her execution was filmed by Rawa, a woman’s association. The public affairs program “Envoyé Spécial” (Special Correspondent) has undertaken an inquiry to know who she was. Thanks to an Afghan journalist, we were able to meet the main protagonists of this drama. Two prison guards and a police woman who knew the woman called Zarmina well and also her family. She had been imprisoned two and a half years in the Kabul prison. How was Zarmina judged? According to what procedures? Did she really murder her husband? Through this report and using Zarmina’s story, “Envoyé Spécial” investigates the condition of women in Afghanistan both in the past and today.