The Taliban Supreme Court has announced that the group has flogged four individuals, including one woman, in Chahar Asyab district of Kabul on charges of extramarital relations and theft.
According to the report, the local Taliban court sentenced each of these individuals to 39 lashes and prison terms ranging from one to three years.
Although the Taliban typically carries out flogging punishments in public, the statement released about these individuals did not specify whether the flogging was conducted publicly.
In similar previous cases, such punishments have often been carried out in the presence of spectators.
The Taliban group considers the implementation of flogging as application of “Islamic Sharia” and continues to impose corporal punishment on citizens despite opposition from international human rights organizations, which describe these actions as “cruel, inhuman, and degrading.”
