KABUL: Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Wednesday said that nine people, including at least two women, were publicly flogged for committing various crimes, such as adultery.
Five of the punishments took place at a sports stadium in Kandahar. Local Taliban officials, judicial officers, and ordinary Afghans were present during the punishments.
According to the Supreme Court, the five individuals were found guilty of adultery, sodomy, and robbery, with each of them receiving 39 lashes and jail sentences of two to seven years.
The court also said that on Wednesday two men and two women were publicly flogged for adultery in the Takhar and Samangan provinces.
Hundreds of men and women have been lashed in sports stadiums across Afghanistan since the Taliban retook power in 2021.
In June this year, the Taliban carried out a mass lashing of 63 convicts, including 14 women, in a packed stadium for committing immoral crimes. The Taliban have also executed at least five murder convicts in crowded stadiums.
The executions have drawn calls from the United Nations to immediately end them for being a violation of human rights and international law.
The United States and the majority of the world states have refused to recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, citing their treatment of women, among other human rights concerns.
It is pertinent to mention that girls ages 12 and older are not allowed to attend secondary school, making Afghanistan the only country in the world where female students have been stopped from universities.
