Seven men sentenced to death for gunpoint gang rape of four women - PHOTO+VIDEO

This rare case of sexual assault has shaken the capital and raised concerns over public security at a time of transition.Police said a large group of men, some dressed in police uniforms, and with assault rifles, stopped a convoy of cars in which the women and their families in just outside of Kabul in district of Paghman.They dragged four women out of the cars in the middle of the night and raped them in the field near the main road. One of them was pregnant. The victims were also beaten and their jewellery and mobile phones stolen.Crimes against women are common but mostly take place inside homes in Afghanistan's conservative society. But a gang rape by armed men is rare in Kabul and has tapped into a vein of anxiety as foreign troops leave the country and a badly stretched Afghan army and police fight a deadly Taliban insurgency. (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az