Taliban Publicly Flogs Woman In Nangarhar For 'Running Away From Home'
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced in a statement on Monday, November 4, that the group had flogged a woman in Nangarhar province.
According to the Taliban's court ruling in Kuz Kunar district of Nangarhar province, the woman was flogged 39 times in public for "running away from home”.
The Taliban's Supreme Court said that the woman was flogged in the presence of a number of Taliban officials, mullahs, and the public.
The Taliban's court statement said that the group's mullahs spoke about the "value of hudud and punishment" after the woman was flogged.
The United Nations political mission announced in its quarterly report last week that the Taliban have handed out corporal punishment to 111 people, including 16 women, across Afghanistan in the past three months. UNAMA said that the Taliban flogged these individuals individually and sometimes in groups on various charges.
