Taliban Flogs 27 Afghan Citizens in Southern Afghanistan
Taliban publicly flogged 27 Afghans in Helmand and Zabul provinces on various charges on Wednesday. Local Taliban officials have said that they flogged 20 men in the Lashkargah city stadium and seven others, including two women, in the Shaikh Mati High School in Qalat city.
Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim Riaz, deputy provincial director of Information and Culture in Helmand, confirmed the flogging of these citizens.
According to Riaz, these citizens have been punished for theft and extramarital affairs.
These people have been punished in the central stadium of Lashkargah city in Helmand province and some of them have been sentenced to prison for several months.
In Qalat, the capital city of Zabul province, the Taliban have flogged seven people, including two women, at the Shaikh Mati High School on charges of theft and extramarital affairs.
After flogging the two women, the Taliban in Zabul Province sentenced them to three and one-year sentences in prison.
According to the Taliban, some of the men who have been punished in Zabul have also been sentenced to prison terms ranging from a few months to three years.
