RASC: According to a report from a media controlled by the Taliban group, the commander of the Taliban police in Samangan, on Sunday, June 25, in a press conference, announced the arrest of 297 people in the country in the last three months by this group.
Mawlawi Habibullah Shaker, Samangan police commander, says that these people are accused of criminal and moral crimes.
According to the report of the Bakhtar news agency, which operates under the supervision of this group, the commander of the Taliban group said that the arrested people were involved in “murder, theft, moral corruption, drinking alcohol, forgery, rape, running away from home, family violence” and drug production.
Mawlawi Habibullah Shaker said that the case of the arrested persons has been handed over to the courts of the Taliban group.
It is said that if these people are found guilty, they face the risk of punishment such as whipping and amputation, which is considered torture according to international conventions.
The members of the Taliban group have said that the punishment will be carried out according to “Islamic Sharia”.
On Sunday June 25, in a message that is said to have been published by Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the leader of the Taliban group, it was announced that he was satisfied with “Shariah and retribution” in Afghanistan and called it an action within the framework of “Islamic law”.
It should be mentioned that after the Taliban group took control of the country, this group has arrested many people on various pretexts all over the country, and sometimes these arrested people have been killed or suffered the most severe tortures from the people of this group. Which in the report of Amnesty International, they were even accused of war crimes in Panjshir province.