RASC News Agency: Local sources from Kandahar province report that the Taliban group has recently administered corporal punishment to three individuals as part of their ongoing desert court proceedings in the province. These sources have informed the media that the specifics of the alleged crimes of these three individuals have not been disclosed, but they were subjected to whipping by Taliban members on Tuesday, Apr 2.
The Taliban Supreme Court has further corroborated this information and detailed in a newsletter that each of the accused received sentences consisting of 39 and 30 lashes, in addition to terms of 17, five, and ten years of imprisonment. Despite facing opposition both globally and domestically regarding their methods of punishing suspects, the Taliban group has once again resorted to desert court proceedings.
In recent incidents, the Taliban have punished six individuals in Khost province for “deception” and three others, including a woman, in Faryab province for “adultery” and “escaping from home.” Journalists and media personnel are prohibited by the Taliban from accessing locations where individuals are being punished, thereby preventing them from capturing photographs, recording videos, or conducting interviews.
Furthermore, the Taliban have a historical precedent of implementing Sharia law’s “hudud” and “qisas” punishments, which they staunchly defend. During the latter half of the 1990s, the Taliban held control in Afghanistan, and during that period, under the leadership of Mullah Omar, the group’s founding leader, court rulings were issued and enforced based on Sharia law’s “hudud” and “qisas” principles.
