Reza Khan (Taliban)
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Reza Khan was charged on August 5, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan of murder, rape and robbery involving four journalists on November 19, 2001. Khan was also accused of cutting off the noses and ears of Afghan men because of their short beards.
The journalists (Harry Burton, Maria Grazia Cutuli, Azizullah Haidari and Julio Fuentes) were traveling in a convoy from Jalalabad to Kabul when a group of armed men dragged them from their cars and murdered them.
Khan confessed to being one of eleven people who stopped the vehicles and to personally killing one of the foreign men and raping Cutuli; he said they got their orders from Taliban leader Maulawi Latif. Khan also confessed to killing his wife in Pakistan. He confessed under severe torture.
