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Afghanistan: Taliban flogs 11 people, including women, in Faizabad

| @indiablooms | Feb 18, 2023, at 03:13 pm

Kabul:  The supreme court of the Taliban said that eleven people, including two women, were publicly flogged at a sports ground in Afghanistan's Faizabad city on Friday, media reports said.

The statement said the 11 were allegedly accused of “moral crimes and adultery”, and were lashed by the Taliban officials in front of a huge crowd in northern Badakhshan province, reports Khaama Press.

The incident once again showed the return of hard-line practices as was seen practiced by the Taliban administrators during their previous stint in 1990s.

High-ranking Taliban authorities, scholars, and local elders reportedly attended the event.

Accordion to local reports, the Taliban administrators have flogged   scores of people in different provinces, including Helmand, Farah, Takhar, Logar, Kabul, Badakhshan, Uruzgan, Jawzjan, Parwan, Paktiya, Paktika, Laghman, in the past several months.  

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