The Taliban’s Supreme Court said the group’s forces flogged 19 people today April 2, in the provinces of Nimroz, Balkh, and Ghor.
A Taliban primary court in Nimroz sentenced 17 people to between five months and eight years in prison on charges of beating their father, engaging in “illicit relations,” theft, and same-sex relations.
They were also sentenced to 15 to 39 lashes, a punishment carried out after being approved by the Taliban’s Supreme Court, in the presence of local officials.
On the same day, one person in Shortepa district of Balkh province, who had been sentenced to 30 lashes and two years in prison on charges of same-sex relations, was flogged.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court also said that in Ghor, the group’s forces flogged a woman with 10 lashes on charges of “moral corruption.”
