Taliban Flog Three Women, Four Men In Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province
The Taliban said Sunday they flogged three women and four men in Badakhshan province after convicting them of having extramarital relations.
The Taliban said Sunday they flogged three women and four men in Badakhshan province after convicting them of having extramarital relations.
The group’s court announced the defendants were each sentenced to between one and two and a half years in prison and 39 lashes. The punishments, it said, were issued by a primary court in Badakhshan and approved by the Taliban’s Supreme Court before being carried out on Sunday.
According to the statement, the floggings took place in the presence of local Taliban officials.
The Taliban consider corporal punishment part of enforcing Islamic Sharia law. In the past week alone, nearly 20 men and women across Afghanistan have been flogged on various charges.
