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By: The Opinion Updated 39 Nov 2022, 11: 26 pm EST
After returning to power in Afghanistan in August last year, following the departure of the United States army, the extremist group Taliban held an exhibition of public punishment in a stadium in that country.
According to the AP agency, last Wednesday the Taliban whipped 17 people in a sports stadium in a province of the Asian country.
This act joins the resumption by the religious extremist group of a brutal form of punishment that was one of the identity symbols of his government during the decade of 1996 and before the intervention of the armed forces of the United States.
The group of 12 people punished before a crowd were or made up of three women and nine men , who had previously been arrested for violating Taliban rules.
Public punishment was carried out at the Pul Alam city stadium in Logar, south of Kabul, at that were invited the honorable scholars, mujahideen, elders, tribal leaders and local population, by the office of the governor of the province.
According to an official from the governor’s office, the punished received between 21 and 54 lashes each, after being sentenced in a local court for robbery and adultery, actions with which they violated Islamic or sharia law.
“The sharia is the only solution to the problems of Afghanistan andit must be enforced,” Logar Deputy Governor Enayatullah Shuja said in a statement about the lashings.
The return of public punishments
Last Saturday 21 of November the one that is considered the first confirmed public flogging since the Taliban takeover last year and took place in the Afghan province of Tajar, where 21 men and women received 39 lashes each for alleged robbery, adultery and running away from home.
Public punishment seeks to serve as a warning to criminals and a lesson for the guilty, as reported by the Afghan Supreme Court.
These punishments are registered after the leader of the Taliban, the Mullah Hebatulá Ajundzada , recently ordered Afghan judges to fully apply sharia law
against those who commit a series of crimes that could be punished even with public amputations or stoning
These punishments, public executions and stoning for alleged crimes, were common during the first period of the Taliban government , from to 2001.
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