Taliban publicly flogs 63 in Afghanistan, together with girls, drawing UN condemnation

The United Nations is condemning the Taliban after it publicly flogged greater than 60 individuals at a sports activities stadium in northern Afghanistan. 

The United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan wrote on X that 63 individuals had been “publicly lashed” by “Afghanistan’s de facto authorities” on Tuesday within the Sari Pul province. 

“UNAMA reiterates its condemnation of corporal punishment and requires respect for worldwide human rights obligations,” it added. 

Taliban’s supreme courtroom in an announcement confirmed the general public flogging of 63 individuals together with 14 girls who had been accused of crimes together with sodomy, theft and immoral relations.  

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The Taliban, regardless of preliminary guarantees of a extra average rule, started finishing up extreme punishments in public – executions, floggings and stonings – shortly after coming to energy once more in 2021. The punishments are much like these throughout the Taliban’s earlier rule within the late Nineteen Nineties. 

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Taliban fighters have fun the primary anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2022. (AP Photograph/Ebrahim Noroozi) (AP Photograph/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Separate statements by the supreme courtroom stated a person and a girl convicted of adultery and attempting to run away from house had been flogged in northern Panjsher province on Wednesday. 

Earlier this 12 months, the Taliban held a public execution of a person convicted of homicide as hundreds watched at a stadium in northern Jawzjan province, based on The Related Press. The brother of the murdered man shot the convict 5 instances with a rifle. 

A Taliban safety member stands guard as Afghan individuals wait to cross into Pakistan on the Torkham border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Nangarhar province. (Shafiullah Kakar/AFP through Getty Photos)

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That was the fifth public execution for the reason that Taliban seized energy in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops had been within the ultimate weeks of their withdrawal from the nation after twenty years of battle. 

The Related Press contributed to this report.