The Taliban Supreme Court has announced that 16 people in Kabul were flogged in public on charges of buying and selling drugs and alcoholic beverages.
The institution said in a statement released this afternoon (Saturday, April 11) that these individuals had previously been sentenced to between seven months and three years and six months in prison, as well as 25 to 30 lashes.
According to the statement, the punishment was carried out today in public after being approved by the Taliban Supreme Court.
Since returning to power, the Taliban have resumed corporal punishment of accused individuals and have continued this practice with increasing intensity over the past nearly five years.
Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have described corporal punishment of accused individuals as a violation of human dignity and have repeatedly called for its cessation.
European Union officials will meet with a Taliban delegation next week in Brussels.
Agence France-Presse has reported that the European Union plans to invite a Taliban delegation to Brussels in the next weeks to discuss the deportation of Afghan asylum seekers. According to sources who spoke to AFP, the visit was...
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