Five People, Including a Woman, Publicly Flogged by the Taliban in Kabul and Kunduz

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The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that five individuals, including one woman, were publicly flogged in the provinces of Kunduz and Kabul.

These individuals were punished on charges of "extramarital relations" and "selling alcohol and narcotic substances."

According to a statement issued by the court on Thursday (May 29), the Taliban’s Primary Court in Qala-e-Zal district of Kunduz province sentenced a woman and a man to flogging and three years of imprisonment for having an extramarital relationship.

In another case, the court reported the execution of flogging sentences for three other men in Kabul, who were convicted of selling narcotics and alcoholic beverages. They were sentenced to one to two years in prison along with flogging.

The Taliban did not provide any details regarding the identities of the individuals or the legal proceedings in its statement.

Since the return of the Taliban to power, punishments such as public flogging under the pretext of "implementing Sharia rulings" have been widely carried out, drawing strong reactions from human rights organizations and the United Nations. International bodies consider these actions to be in violation of fair trial principles and a breach of human rights.