Taliban Publicly Flogged 27 People In Four Provinces

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced that at least 27 people had been flogged in four provinces.

Abdul Ghani Saeed, head of the Taliban’s appeals court in Jawzjan, said that 22 people, including four women, were punished in public at the stadium in this province.

The Taliban court has publicly flogged five other people in Paktika, Kabul and Maidan Wardak provinces.

The head of the Taliban’s appeals court in Jawzjan province said on Tuesday, November 5, that these people were publicly flogged on charges of extramarital sex, buying, selling, producing and smuggling drugs and alcohol.

This local Taliban official has not explained details about the identity of these people and the process of their trial to justice.

A few hours ago, the Taliban’s Supreme Court announced in separate newsletters that two men were flogged on charges of sexual relations in Khoshamand district of Paktika province and the punishment of another man in Syed Abad district of Maidan Wardak province. In the third newsletter, this court also announced the punishment of a woman and a man for having extramarital relations in Kabul.

According to this court, the accused were flogged in public and in the presence of local authorities.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court wrote that it punished two men in Paktika Province with 36 lashes and one man in Wardak with 39 lashes. Taliban has punished a woman and a man in Kabul with 39 lashes.

According to the Supreme Court reports of this group, the Taliban has publicly whipped more than 40 people in different provinces in the past week.

Meanwhile, international human rights organisations have repeatedly asked the Taliban to stop corporal punishment and torture of the accused. However, the Taliban has continued to publicly punish the accused.

The Taliban consider the execution of whipping in public as one of the orders of "Islamic Sharia".