Taliban Publicly Flogs Woman, Three Men In Nangarhar
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had sentenced four people, including a woman, to 39 lashes in public in the Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar province.
The court said in a statement that the men had been convicted of running away from home and having extra-marital relations.
According to a statement issued by the Taliban's Supreme Court, the flogging sentence of a woman and three men was carried out on Monday, October 28, in the presence of the group's officials and residents of Kuz Kunar district.
On Monday, the Taliban also punished four other people, including a woman, with 39 lashes in public in Sayed Khel district of Parwan province.
In the past two weeks, the group has publicly flogged about 25 men and women on various charges in Khost, Kabul, Takhar, Parwan, Faryab and Nangarhar provinces.
After taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban announced the abolition of all laws in force in the country, and the group's courts tried the defendants based on what they call "Islamic law”.
