Taliban Flogs 24, Including Woman, Over Drugs & Morality Charges
The Taliban’s Supreme Court said at least 24 people, including one woman, were publicly flogged in Kabul and Kapisa province on charges including drug trafficking and sex outside marriage.
According to statements from the Taliban judiciary, 22 people were flogged in Kabul after being accused of selling and trafficking alcohol, cannabis, crystal meth and heroin. The punishments were carried out Tuesday by a Taliban counter-narcotics primary court.
In a separate statement, the court said a man and a woman were flogged in public in Alasay district of Kapisa province on accusations of extramarital relations. The punishments were carried out in the presence of local civilian and military officials.
Those punished received between 10 and 39 lashes and were also sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven months to three years, the statements said.
Based on announcements from the Taliban’s Supreme Court, the group has flogged at least 124 people across Afghanistan on various charges over the past 10 days.
Despite opposition from international organisations to corporal punishment and the treatment of detainees, the Taliban have continued to carry out public floggings of people convicted by their courts. Taliban authorities describe the punishments as the enforcement of Islamic law.
