At least nine people, including a woman, were punished Saturday in Afghanistan’s eastern Jost region after being convicted by Taliban-installed courts for allegedly having sex outside marriage.
According to reports in the Afghan daily ‘Hasht e Subh’, all of them have received the lashes in the provincial capital city of Jost after the court confirmed the sentences against them.
So far no details have been released on how many lashes the convicts received, although the Taliban routinely give 30 lashes to those accused of having sex outside marriage.
Taliban leader Mullah Hebatullah Ajundzada recently ordered Afghanistan’s judges to fully apply Sharia law against those who commit a range of crimes that could be punishable even by public amputations or stoning for offenses such as theft, kidnapping or sedition.
The United Nations Office for Human Rights said in late November it was «appalled» by reports of the Taliban’s use of lashes as public punishment, to which the group responded that criticism of such sentences was an «insult to Islam».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
