Afghan official says 19 people lashed in northeast province - Danbury News Times

During their erstwhile regularisation successful the precocious 1990s, the radical carried retired nationalist executions, floggings and stoning of those convicted of crimes successful Taliban courts.

After they overran Afghanistan past year, the Taliban initially promised to beryllium much mean and let for women’s and number rights. Instead, they person restricted rights and freedoms, including a prohibition connected girl's acquisition beyond the sixth grade.

On Thursday, a Taliban spokesperson said they are committed to implementing each Sharia laws.

A Supreme Court official, Abdul Rahim Rashid, said 10 men and 9 women were lashed 39 times each successful Taloqan metropolis successful northeastern Takhar province, connected Nov. 11. He said the punishment took spot successful the beingness of elders, scholars and residents astatine the city's main mosque aft Friday prayers.

Rashid did not supply idiosyncratic details connected the 19 people, specified arsenic wherever they were from, oregon what happened to them aft they were lashed. He said their cases were assessed by 2 courts earlier they were convicted, confirming accusation successful a Supreme Court statement.

The United Nations has said it is progressively acrophobic that restrictions connected girls’ education, arsenic good arsenic different measures curtailing basal freedoms, volition deepen Afghanistan’s economical situation and pb to greater insecurity, poorness and isolation.

The erstwhile insurgents person struggled successful their modulation from insurgency and warfare to governing amid an economical downturn and the planetary community’s withholding of authoritative recognition.