New Delhi: A United Nations (UN) report released today has criticized the Taliban in Afghanistan. The United Nations has criticized the Taliban for public executions, floggings and stonings carried out in Afghanistan and called on the authorities to halt such practices. In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Afghanistan’s laws are in accordance with Islamic rules and guidelines and a large number of Afghan citizens follow these rules.
The Taliban’s foreign ministry responded by saying, ‘In the event of a conflict between international human rights law and Islamic law, the government is committed to following Islamic law.’ Such punishments began shortly after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan about two years ago. While he promised to adopt more liberal rules than during his tenure in the 1990s.
334 people were publicly punished in 6 months
According to a report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), 274 men, 58 women and 2 youths were publicly flogged in Afghanistan in the last 6 months alone. The agency’s head of human rights, Fiona Fraser, said: ‘Corporal punishment is a breach of the Convention against Harassment and must be stopped.’ He has demanded an immediate ban on the death penalty.
In the matter of adultery Punishment of 100 lashes for unmarried men and women
According to a report released by the United Nations on Monday, the Taliban’s operations are described both before and after coming to power in August 2021. According to the report, public flogging was first administered in October 2021 in northern Kapisa province after the Taliban came to power. According to the report, a woman and a man accused of adultery (relationship between an unmarried couple) were given 100 lashes each in the presence of a cleric and local officials.
of the father to the victim J Sentenced to death by rifling
Taliban officials executed one accused of the killing in December 2022. According to the report, this was the first case of public execution since the Taliban came to power. The victim was shot with his father’s own rifle and the sentence was handed down in western Farah province in the presence of clerics and Taliban officials. Jabihullah Mujahid, the government’s top spokesman, said that the decision to give the sentence was very deliberate and it was approved by all three supreme courts of the country and the supreme leader of the Taliban, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada.
