Taliban authorities are expected to publicly execute two people at a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan today, local officials said.
Taliban authorities are expected to publicly execute two people at a soccer stadium in eastern Afghanistan today, local officials said.
These will be the third and fourth public executions to take place in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
The Information and Culture Service of Ghazni province said the executions would be based on the Islamic principle of “kissah,” the law of retribution, without giving further details about those convicted or the crimes they had committed.
Public executions were common during the Taliban’s first period of rule, from 1996 to 2001. Those sentenced to death were usually executed by firing squad or by stoning, depending on the crimes they were convicted of.
Since 2021, there have been two executions in Afghanistan, both for murder. In the previous execution, which took place in June in Laghman province, a man convicted of killing five people was executed with a single bullet in the mosque in front of about 2,000 people.
Taliban authorities have also carried out many public floggings for other crimes such as theft, adultery or drinking alcohol.
In November 2022, Afghanistan’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, had asked judges to apply all the provisions of sharia, Islamic law, especially regarding public executions in cases of conviction for murder, but also physical punishments (stoning, floggings and mutilations).
After returning to power, the Taliban had said they would be more relaxed in the implementation of sharia, but in reality they are imposing their strict version of Islam on Afghanistan.
Source :Skai
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