Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called a Taliban ban on women working an unacceptable violation of Afghan human rights. Many Muslim-majority countries draw on Islamic law, but the Taliban interpretation is an outlier. UNAMA documented at least 182 instances when the Taliban carried out their own sentences during the height of their insurgency between 2010 and August 2021, resulting in 213 deaths and 64 injuries. invasion of 2001, the Taliban continued to carry out corporal punishment and executions in areas under their control while waging an insurgency against the U.S.-backed former Afghan government, the report said. Haqqani said the Taliban leadership is committed to carrying out such sentences.Īfter their initial overthrow in the U.S. Such verdicts establish the right of a purported victim, or relative of a victim of a crime to punish or forgive the perpetrator. In a video message, Abdul Malik Haqqani, the Taliban’s appointed deputy chief justice, said last week that the Taliban’s Supreme Court has issued 175 so-called retribution verdicts since taking power, including 79 floggings and 37 stonings. Other purported offenses included theft, homosexuality, consuming alcohol, fraud and drug trafficking. ![]() A majority of punishments were related to convictions of adultery and “running away from home,” the report said. Since that tweet, UNAMA documented at least 43 instances of public lashings involving 274 men, 58 women and two boys. ![]() ![]() There has been a significant increase in the number and regularity of judicial corporal punishment since November when Mujahid repeated comments by the supreme leader about judges and their use of Islamic law in a tweet, the report said. Zabihullah Mujahid, the top government spokesman, said the decision to carry out the punishment was “made very carefully,” following approval by three of the country’s highest courts and the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada. The execution, carried out with an assault rifle by the victim’s father, took place in the western Farah province before hundreds of spectators and top Taliban officials. In December 2022, Taliban authorities executed an Afghan convicted of murder, the first public execution since they took power the report said. In that case, a woman and man convicted of adultery were publicly lashed 100 times each in the presence of religious scholars and local Taliban authorities, it said. The first public flogging following the Taliban takeover was reported in October 2021 in the northern Kapisa province, the report said. and NATO forces withdrew after two decades of war. Monday’s report on corporal punishment documents Taliban practices both before and after their return to power in August 2021, when they seized the capital of Kabul as U.S. The restrictions have triggered an international uproar, increasing the country’s isolation at a time when its economy has collapsed - and worsening a humanitarian crisis. The Taliban began carrying out such punishments shortly after coming to power almost two years ago, despite initial promises of a more moderate rule than during their previous stint in power in the 1990s.Īt the same time, they have gradually tightened restrictions on women, barring them from public spaces, such as parks and gyms, in line with their interpretation of Islamic law. ![]() “In the event of a conflict between international human rights law and Islamic law, the government is obliged to follow the Islamic law,” the ministry said in a statement. The Taliban foreign ministry said in response that Afghanistan’s laws are determined in accordance with Islamic rules and guidelines, and that an overwhelming majority of Afghans follow those rules. She also called for an immediate moratorium on executions. “Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease,” said Fiona Frazer, the agency’s human rights chief.
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