The Taliban regime’s Supreme Court announced in a statement today, Tuesday (August 12), that the Primary Court for Counter-Narcotics in Kabul has flogged 16 people on charges of “selling and trafficking addictive tablets, alcoholic beverages, and hashish.”
According to the statement, each of these individuals was sentenced to between eight months and three years in prison, as well as 10 to 39 lashes.
Earlier, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported that the Taliban regime continues to carry out corporal punishments against citizens on a weekly basis.
Corporal punishment is in direct conflict with international law and human values, and is recognized as a form of blatant violence — an act the Taliban have repeatedly committed.
The Taliban claim these punishments are carried out in accordance with religious and Sharia law. In Islamic religious texts, execution is listed as the first severe punishment, amputation of a hand as the second, and flogging as the third.
