The United Nations known as on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Monday to halt all state executions, voicing its concern in a report that particulars public executions, stoning, flogging, and different kinds of corporal punishments carried out by the hardline Islamic group because it retook management over the nation nearly two years in the past.
The report recorded numerous situations of bodily punishment administrated by the Taliban authorities, reminiscent of lashing, stoning, various kinds of bodily assaults, and compelling folks to go shaving and stand in chilly water.
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In line with the report from the U.N. Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), during the last six months alone, 58 girls, 274 males and two underage boys had been publicly lashed for numerous offenses, together with adultery, operating away from house, theft, homosexuality, consuming alcohol, forgery and drug trafficking. These convicted obtained between 30 and 100 lashes as their official punishment.
Related punishments had been doled out to 33 males, 22 girls and two underage ladies between Aug 15, 2021, when the Taliban stormed again to energy because the U.S. and different international nations pulled their troops out, and Nov 12, 2022.
The report information two public executions for the reason that Taliban’s takeover, considered one of them ordered by a choose in western Afghanistan and attended by Taliban ministers, in line with UNAMA. The executed man was convicted of murdering one other man in 2017, and the sufferer’s household carried out the punishment.
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The opposite execution famous within the UNAMA report was a case of extrajudicial execution carried out by a district governor with out due course of.
“Corporal punishment is a violation of the Conference towards Torture and should stop. The UN is strongly against the loss of life penalty and encourages the DFA (de facto authorities) to ascertain a right away moratorium on executions,” UNAMA human rights chief Fiona Frazer mentioned.
In response to the U.N.’s report, the Taliban’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs mentioned Afghanistan adopted Islamic guidelines and tips.
“Afghanistan follows the holy faith of Islam and Islamic rules; subsequently, the legal guidelines are decided in accordance with Islamic guidelines and tips. Within the occasion of a battle between worldwide human rights legislation and Islamic legislation, the federal government is obliged to observe the Islamic legislation.”
The Taliban regime has been condemned broadly, together with by the governments of different majority-Muslim nations and organizations, for its strict interpretation of Islam, together with its bans on ladies over the age of 12 going to high school or college and on girls working within the overwhelming majority of professions.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-run Supreme Courtroom introduced final week that courts throughout the nation had handed down a complete of 175 loss of life sentences for the reason that summer time of 2021, together with 37 folks sentenced to die by stoning.
A few of the punishments had already been carried out, however others had been nonetheless pending implementation, in line with the Supreme Courtroom’s deputy, Abdul Malik Haqqani. The courtroom didn’t element the alleged crimes of the individuals who obtained the sentences.
Haqqani mentioned the Taliban management had suggested all of the nation’s courts to proceed issuing loss of life sentences and different corporal punishment in keeping with the group’s interpretation of Islamic Sharia legislation, however he burdened that each one such sentences, “want cautious research and consideration, and the orders will likely be applied step-by-step after approval by the management council and the cupboard.”
