9 Afghan males lashed in public for crimes underneath nation’s new rulers

Nine males had been lashed in public in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as punishment for various crimes underneath the nation’s new rulers, a Taliban-appointed official stated.

The lashings had been the most recent instance of harsh insurance policies imposed by the Taliban since they seized energy within the nation in August 2021 — insurance policies that mirror their interpretation of Islamic regulation, or Sharia.

Haji Zaid, a spokesman for the governor’s workplace in southern Kandahar province, stated in a tweet that the lashings befell on the sports activities stadium within the metropolis of Kandahar, the provincial capital.

Each man was lashed between 35 and 39 occasions in entrance of Taliban officers, non secular clerics, elders, and native individuals, he stated. Zaid’s tweet didn’t elaborate on the crimes the 9 had been accused of or present different particulars.

27 PEOPLE PUBLICALLY LASHED BY TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN FOR ALLEGED ADULTERY, DRUG OFFENSES, THEFT, OTHER CRIMES

Nine males in Afghanistan had been lashed in public Tuesday for committing crimes underneath the nation’s new rulers. Punishment for crimes have been harsher because the Taliban seized energy in 2021. 

Zaid and different Taliban officers in Kandahar couldn’t instantly be reached for extra remark.

Last month, the Taliban executed an Afghan convicted of killing one other man, the primary public execution because the former insurgents returned to energy. The execution was carried out with an assault rifle by the sufferer’s father in western Farah province as a whole lot of spectators and plenty of high Taliban officers watched.

No nation has formally acknowledged the brand new Afghan authorities underneath the Taliban, who beforehand dominated Afghanistan within the late Nineties.