Authorities order the execution of a man and the whipping of 18 men and 9 women in the streets of the Parwan region
After several months of trying to display a more moderate image abroad, the Taliban restored the essence of their first emirate and carried out the first public execution since they returned to power. A man accused of murder and theft of a mobile phone and a bicycle in 2017 was executed and it was his victim’s father who shot him three times in Farah province, in the southwest of the country.
Senior officials of the Islamist government were present at this act which was condemned by organizations such as the UN, demonstrating their “opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances”. The United Nations expressed concern about the “express” legal system established by the Taliban; one in which “arrests, court hearings, sentencing and punishment often take place on the same day”.
Such executions were common during the first Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001 and took place the same week that the country’s Supreme Court ordered the public whipping of 18 men and nine women in Parwan, in neighboring Kabul province. “The introduction of Sharia (Islamic law) is a must,” the authorities in Kabul defend. Mohammad Ismail Rahmani, one of the senior Islamist officials, recalled that “we have been fighting against the pagans for 20 years to ensure an Islamic system and now that Allah has given it to us, Allah wants us to guarantee His divine mandates”.
Source: La Verdad
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