RASC News Agency: Local sources in Ghor province report that a woman and a man were whipped by the Taliban group in this province.
Sources say that on Thursday, August 10, a man and a woman were whipped by the Taliban in the sports stadium of Ghor province on charges of “extramarital affairs”.
According to the sources, the Taliban group gave each of them 39 lashes.
A member of the Taliban group also says that the accused man was sentenced to one month in prison and the accused woman to 9 months in prison.
It is mentionable that, last month (July 12) the Taliban group had announced that four people, including a woman, had been flogged on the charge of “debauchery” in Paghman district of Kabul province.
The Taliban group had said that the forces of this group arrested the accused from an area of Qargha Band of Kabul and this group sentenced them to three months in prison after whipping them.
According to the Taliban group, each of these defendants was given 20 lashes.
Meanwhile, Richard Bennett, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights affairs in Afghanistan, said that the Taliban group, contrary to the 1976 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 1987 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which Afghanistan is one of its members, have acted.
Doubts have also been raised about the justice of the sentences, including the general death sentence of the Taliban group, because the Taliban group does not have the criteria for a fair trial.
Earlier, the United Nations and Richard Bennett had demanded from the Taliban to ban the punishment of “extramarital affairs”.
