The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's primary courts in the districts of Pashtunkot, Faryab, Janikhel, Paktika and Kabul flogged four people, including a woman, on charges of "running away from home, robbery and forgery”.
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced on Monday, December 23, that a woman in Faryab province has been "punished" with 39 lashes and one year in prison for running away from home. The Taliban's statement said that the woman's flogging sentence was carried out in public.
In another statement, the court announced the execution of flogging sentences on two individuals in Janikhel district of Paktika province and wrote that these individuals were sentenced to two years in prison and 35 lashes on charges of robbery.
Another statement issued by the court shows that the group in Kabul has sentenced one person to 15 lashes and one year in prison on charges of "forgery and deception”.
The published statements emphasised that these sentences were carried out after the approval of the Taliban's Supreme Court. The Taliban continues to carry out corporal punishment across the country, and on Sunday (December 22) they had flogged a man in Kunduz for allegedly having a same-sex relationship.
