Three women among dozen publicly flogged in Afghanistan - Taliban official - BBC

Twelve people, including 3 women, person been flogged successful beforehand of thousands of onlookers astatine a shot stadium successful Afghanistan.

The radical were blameworthy of "moral crimes" including adultery, robbery and cheery sex, a Taliban authoritative told the BBC.

This is thought to beryllium the 2nd clip successful a period the Islamist radical has carried retired nationalist lashings.

The determination could awesome a instrumentality to the hard-line practices seen successful the erstwhile Taliban regularisation successful the 1990s.

Omar Mansoor Mujahid, a Taliban spokesperson for Logar portion successful eastbound Afghanistan, wherever the lashings happened, said that each 3 women were freed aft they were punished. Some of the men were jailed, helium said, but it is not wide however many.

The men and women received betwixt 21 and 39 lashes each. The maximum fig a idiosyncratic tin person is 39, different Taliban authoritative said.

Nineteen radical were besides punished past week successful a akin flogging successful Takhar state successful bluish Afghanistan, reports say.

The flogging successful Logar state comes a week aft the Taliban's ultimate leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, ordered judges to enforce punishments for definite crimes successful enactment with the group's strict speechmaking of Islamic Sharia law.

This mentation of Islamic instrumentality includes nationalist executions, nationalist amputations and stoning - though nonstop crimes and corresponding punishments person not been officially defined by the Taliban.

The ultimate leader's bid is the latest motion that the Taliban is taking a tougher stance connected rights and freedoms; aft promising to regularisation much moderately erstwhile they took powerfulness past year.

During their regularisation from 1996-2001, the Taliban were condemned for regularly carrying retired punishments successful public, including floggings and executions astatine the nationalist stadium successful Kabul.

The authorities besides vowed that they would not repetition the brutal repression of women; but since the group's instrumentality to regularisation women's freedoms person been severely curbed and a fig of women person been beaten for demanding rights.