WORLD NEWS | Taliban publicly flog 11, including 2 women, in Badakhshan, Afghanistan

kabul [Afghanistan]Feb. 18 (ANI): Eleven people, including two women, were killed on Friday at a sports field in Faizabad, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, the Taliban Supreme Court said, Afghan news agency Khaama Press reported. whipping.

In the presence of Taliban authorities, academics and local elders, the Taliban whipped 11 people in front of a large crowd in northern Badakhshan province, accusing them of “moral crimes and adultery”.

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Earlier, 16 people were publicly flogged in Grishke district in southern Helmand province, according to a ruling by the Taliban Supreme Court, Khaama Press reported.

At least 250 people have been publicly flogged by the Taliban for various crimes in different provinces of Afghanistan.

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The Taliban began imposing public punishments in November after the group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, asked judges to enforce Sharia law in court sentences, including the death penalty, Khaama Press reported.

Over the past few months, the Taliban government has launched operations in Helmand, Farah, Takhar, Logar, Kabul, Badakhshan, Uruzgan, Jowzjan, Dozens of people were whipped in Parwan, Paktia, Paktika, Laghman and other provinces.

The media recently reported that the Taliban publicly whipped the three people a total of 39 times, once again alerting to the suppression of human rights in Afghanistan and exposing that the organization ruling Afghanistan does not tolerate pre-marital relationships.

Taliban officials defending the incident in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan said the caning was carried out because the three youths were suspected of adultery.

According to communications from the Taliban office in Nangarhar province, the three lived in a shared house and were tried and sentenced after being detained on suspicion of illicit sexual relations. (Arnie)

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