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Abdul Ghani Saeed, head of the Taliban’s appeals court in Jawzjan, said that 22 people, including four women, were punished in public at the stadium in this province.

The Taliban court has publicly flogged five other people in Paktika, Kabul and Maidan Wardak provinces.

The head of the Taliban’s appeals court in Jawzjan province said on Tuesday, November 5, that these people were publicly flogged on charges of extramarital sex, buying, selling, producing and smuggling drugs and alcohol.

This local Taliban official has not explained details about the identity of these people and the process of their trial to justice.

A few hours ago, the Taliban’s Supreme Court announced in separate newsletters that two men were flogged on charges of sexual relations in Khoshamand district of Paktika province and the punishment of another man in Syed Abad district of Maidan Wardak province. In the third newsletter, this court also announced the punishment of a woman and a man for having extramarital relations in Kabul.

According to this court, the accused were flogged in public and in the presence of local authorities.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court wrote that it punished two men in Paktika Province with 36 lashes and one man in Wardak with 39 lashes. Taliban has punished a woman and a man in Kabul with 39 lashes.

According to the Supreme Court reports of this group, the Taliban has publicly whipped more than 40 people in different provinces in the past week.

Meanwhile, international human rights organisations have repeatedly asked the Taliban to stop corporal punishment and torture of the accused. However, the Taliban has continued to publicly punish the accused.

The Taliban consider the execution of whipping in public as one of the orders of "Islamic Sharia".

Mubin Safi, a spokesman for the Taliban's police command in Takhar, said that the results of the committee’s findings would be presented in the future.

According to sources, Gul Bibi, a 55-year-old woman, was taken to a hospital after a clash with Taliban members over the ownership of a plot of land in Darqad, Takhar province, and died four days later in the hospital.

Local sources said that Omar Farooq, the Taliban's police commander in Darqad, had beaten the woman and a number of other women.

Gul Bibi's relatives have sent documents saying that these lands have belonged to the woman's family for more than 60 years and even their ownership of these lands has been approved by a high-ranking Taliban delegation.

Sources also report that the Taliban police chief also beat up Gul Bibi's husband.

Sources confirmed that Gul Bibi's family filed an official complaint against the Taliban's police commander in Darqad, demanding that the incident be investigated.

According to sources, although the Taliban's district governor has issued an order to investigate the incident, the Taliban's police chief in Darqad Takhar has torn up the request.

According to information received by Afghanistan International, the Taliban police chief also told the investigation team that Gul Bibi died due to a blood pressure disease and not as a result of physical assault.

The court said on Tuesday that it had sentenced the men with 36 lashes in public.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced in a statement that the flogging sentences were carried out on Monday, November 4, by the group's primary court in Khoshamand district of Paktika province.

The Taliban have sentenced them to one year and eight months in prison.

Earlier, this court had announced the execution of a flogging sentence against a man in Maidan Wardak on charges of having sexual relations with another man.

The United Nations recently reported that the Taliban have flogged 95 women and 16 men across Afghanistan in the past three months on various charges.

Corporal punishment carried out by the Taliban in Afghanistan is not limited to flogging. Recently, the Taliban's Supreme Court announced that five people have been executed in the country since August 2021.

The court said in a statement that the individual had been sentenced to 39 lashes.

On Tuesday, November 5, the Taliban's Supreme Court wrote that the defendant was sentenced by the Sayed Abad Primary Court in the presence of officials of government institutions and the general public.

Earlier, on Monday, the Taliban's Supreme Court had announced the execution of 39 lashes on a woman and a man in Farkhar district of Takhar province. The court said in a statement that they had been convicted of extramarital affairs.

The Taliban has continued to carry out public punishment despite calls from international human rights organisations to stop corporal punishment and torture of defendants. According to the group's Supreme Court statements, the Taliban punish the accused in public every day across Afghanistan.

According to them, the Taliban has sent their group members to health centres to follow up on this issue.

Taliban members visited all health facilities in the province and warned that female employees should not be allowed to enter the workplace without a male relative, local sources told Afghanistan International on Monday.

In the past three days, they have visited health centres in Mirbazar, the 6th, 9th and 2nd districts, and Kundapur in Kandahar city.

Female health workers said that sometimes the men of the family are not at home, and the Taliban do not accept their younger brothers as mahrams.

Some female health workers said that the ombudsman had asked them to carry a special card for the health centre with their details and that of their mahram, or else they would have to leave their jobs.

These employees complained about the Taliban's harsh behaviour and asked them to consider their family problems and restrictions.

The Taliban's Office for the Promotion of Virtue in Kandahar on Monday explained the new law for the promotion of virtue for employees, and emphasised on the implementation of this law.

Recently, it has been reported that there are no female health workers in many districts of Kandahar and many women are being transferred to Kandahar Central Hospital.

Earlier in September, the Taliban's office of Public Health Advocacy and Guidance in Kandahar announced new restrictions for female health workers in a letter.

According to this letter, female employees must wear a special hijab and be accompanied by a mahram when they go to work.

The Office for the Promotion of Virtue in Kandahar has instructed all female health workers to have a permit from their office when going to districts, in addition to having a mahram.

Previously, only a public health directorate card was enough for female employees to travel.