Taliban Flogs Two Individuals For Adultery In Kabul

The Supreme Court of the Taliban announced on Thursday that two individuals had been punished for adultery in the fourth district of Kabul city.

According to the group's statement, the Taliban administered 35 lashes to each person and sentenced them to one year of imprisonment.

The Supreme Court of the Taliban in the statement added that the primary court of Kabul's fourth zone punished two individuals for adultery on the seventeenth day of Ramadan.

The Taliban did not disclose the identity of these individuals.

Since regaining control of Afghanistan, the Taliban has resumed physical punishments such as flogging, amputation, and execution.

Recently, the Afghan National Radio Television, under Taliban control, broadcast a message attributed to Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, emphasising on the implementation of Sharia law, including physical punishment and stoning of women.

Human rights activists accuse the Taliban of hypocrisy in applying punishments and claim that the group does not enforce Sharia law on its own members.