Taliban Flog Twelve People, Including Three Women, in Kabul, Kunduz, and Logar

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The Taliban have flogged twelve individuals, including three women, in the provinces of Kabul, Kunduz, and Logar. These individuals were punished on charges of "extramarital relations" and "drug trafficking."

According to a statement by the Taliban’s Supreme Court, three people in Logar, including one woman, were flogged in public on charges of extramarital relations. The statement notes that two of them received 30 lashes each, and the third received 39 lashes.

In Kunduz province, the Taliban court reported that a woman and a man in Qala-e-Zal district were each sentenced to 39 lashes and three years of imprisonment.

In Kabul, seven individuals, including one woman, were flogged on various charges.

According to the court, one woman and one man received 39 lashes and were sentenced to two years in prison for extramarital relations. Five others were flogged with 20 to 35 lashes and sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight months to three years for buying and selling narcotic tablets and hashish.

Human rights organizations and the United Nations have repeatedly condemned the Taliban’s use of corporal punishment and desert trials, calling them serious violations of human rights and contrary to the principles of fair trial. However, the Taliban have continued to ignore these criticisms.