Taliban announce scheduled public execution for Afghan murder convict

Islamabad — 

Taliban authorities successful eastbound Afghanistan are scheduled to publically execute a convicted murderer connected Wednesday, citing the Islamic conception of retributive justice, oregon qisas.

The aboriginal greeting punishment volition beryllium carried retired astatine a sports stadium successful Gardez, the superior of the Paktia province, according to a section connection authoritative announcement Tuesday done the X societal media platform. It invited the public, spiritual scholars, and civilian and subject officials to be the event, instructing them not to bring cameras oregon compartment phones.

If the decease punishment is implemented arsenic scheduled, it volition beryllium the sixth nationalist execution of a execution convict successful Afghanistan since the Taliban regained powerfulness successful August 2021 and implemented a transgression justness strategy based connected their mentation of Islamic law, Sharia. The announcement did not specify however the execution volition beryllium implemented.

Previously, specified executions were carried retired by gunshot.

Despite the United Nations condemning the signifier arsenic “inconsistent with the cardinal close to life” and "a signifier of cruel, inhuman, oregon degrading attraction oregon punishment," de facto Afghan leaders proceed to transportation retired these executions.

The Taliban besides person flogged hundreds of men and women successful packed sports stadiums crossed Afghanistan for committing “immoral crimes," specified arsenic adultery, homosexuality, theft, and robbery. In October alone, astir 100 Afghans, including women, were lashed successful beforehand of onlookers and received jailhouse presumption ranging from six months to 2 years for specified offenses, according to the Taliban Supreme Court data.

U.N. experts and quality rights organizations person decried corporal punishment arsenic a breach of quality rights and planetary law, urging the Taliban to halt it immediately.

Women’s rights successful Afghanistan person declined sharply nether the Taliban rule, according to U.N. assessments. They mention a bid of decrees and directives issued by Taliban person Hibatullah Akhundzada, which are designed to “systematically” exclude women from nationalist beingness successful astir each sector.

The edicts person banned Afghan girls and young women from pursuing secondary and university-level education. Women are banned from nationalist and backstage workplaces with exceptions for health, immigration, and constabulary departments.

A caller decree has deemed the dependable of women’s voices successful nationalist a motivation usurpation and requires them to screen their full bodies and faces erstwhile outdoors. It besides forbids women from looking astatine men to whom they are not related and vice versa.

The Taliban person defended their Islamic governance and rejected planetary calls to reverse restrictions connected Afghan women’s freedom. No state has officially recognized Taliban leaders arsenic morganatic rulers of Afghanistan.