Taliban Hand Public Floggings To 24 People In Sar-e Pul, Laghman
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says local courts in Sar-e Pul and Laghman provinces have sentenced 24 people, including five women, to prison terms and public floggings.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says local courts in Sar-e Pul and Laghman provinces have sentenced 24 people, including five women, to prison terms and public floggings.
They are accused of offences such as “running away from home, phone contact, and assault.” The punishments ranged from 25 to 39 lashes and eight months to three years in prison.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the court said 21 people, including four women, in Gosfandi district, Sar-e Pul, were sentenced to eight months to three years in prison and 25 to 39 lashes.
In Alishang district, Laghman, three people, including one woman, were given prison terms of one to 1.5 years and 30 to 39 public lashes.
The Taliban have recently stepped up the use of corporal punishment. In the past day alone, they flogged 16 people in Kabul and three others in Khost and Paktia provinces.
Figures from the Taliban Supreme Court indicate that in the past month, the group has publicly punished more than 100 men and women across Afghanistan.
Despite repeated calls from international organisations to end corporal punishment, the Taliban continue to arrest and flog citizens on various charges, describing such actions as part of the “implementation of Islamic Sharia rulings.”
