The Taliban’s Supreme Court said on Thursday (April 9) in its weekly report that officials of the group had carried out physical punishment on 31 people across eight provinces over the past week.
According to the Taliban court’s report, these individuals were initially detained on various charges and later sentenced to flogging and imprisonment.
The Taliban court further stated that the corporal punishment of the accused was carried out in public. The group has repeatedly claimed that enforcing flogging in public serves as a deterrent to others.
Since the Taliban’s return to power, public spaces—particularly stadiums and recreational areas—have been turned into sites of punishment for citizens.
The Taliban continue to flog citizens without regard for human dignity or civil rights.
This comes as human rights organizations and activists have criticized the Taliban’s ongoing corporal punishment of citizens, describing it as the promotion of “brutal violence.”
These organizations have repeatedly called for an end to such acts of torture, describing them as being in violation of human rights law; however, the Taliban authorities have ignored these demands over the past four years.
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