The Taliban publicly flogged 9 convicted of theft and “sodomy” in Ahmad Shahi Stadium in Kandahar, a record stated. Authorities and citizens had been gift for the duration of the lashing as spokesman for the provincial governor, Haji Zaid, stated the convicts had been lashed 35-39 times, as in step with Tolo News.
“The Supreme Court stated in a declaration that 9 humans had been punished in Ahmad Shahi Stadium in Kandahar on Tuesday on prices of theft and ‘sodomy'”, Tolo News reported.
Former coverage guide to minister for afghan resettlement & minister for refugees withinside the UK, Shabnam Nasimi stated that Taliban reduce off the palms of 4 humans in a soccer stadium in Kandahar.
“The Taliban have reportedly reduce off the palms of four humans in a soccer stadium in Kandahar today, accused of theft, in the front of spectators. People are being lashed, amputated & finished in Afghanistan, with out honest trial and due process. This is a human rights violation,” she tweeted.
Last yr in December, Taliban publicly finished a man, in what seemingly marked the primary public execution because the institution seized electricity in August 2021 after US troop withdrawal.
UN specialists have condemned using flogging as a shape of punished and known as on Taliban to straight away halt all sorts of extreme punishments.
“We are moreover elevating doubts approximately the equity of the pains previous those punishments, which seem now no longer to fulfill primary honest trial guarantees. International human rights regulation prohibits the implementation of such merciless sentences, specially the loss of life penalty, following trials that seemingly do now no longer provide the desired honest trial guarantees,” specialists stated in a declaration.