Taliban Publicly Flogs Seven People In Khost & Faryab On Various Charges

The Taliban’s court in Khost sentenced the defendants to 35 to 39 lashes and sentenced them to imprisonment for one to two years.

This court wrote in a newsletter on Wednesday, that it has given the four accused 35 lashes and sentenced each of them to one year of imprisonment. Two other defendants have been sentenced to 35 to 39 lashes and one to two years in prison.

This court has accused six people in Khost province of "illegitimate relations, deception and bribery".

In a separate newsletter, the Supreme Court of the Taliban wrote that in Pashtunkot district of Faryab province, it punished a person with 39 lashes and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment.

The Taliban said that all the accused were punished publicly in the presence of the officials of this group and the local people.