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Home » UN ‘Appalled’ by Taliban-Ordered Public Executions in Afghanistan

UN ‘Appalled’ by Taliban-Ordered Public Executions in Afghanistan

The condemnation comes as Taliban authorities put to death three men by gunfire in Afghan sports stadiums

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The United Nations is urging the Taliban government in Afghanistan to immediately cease “inhuman” public executions and floggings of individuals convicted of murder and other crimes.

The condemnation comes as Taliban authorities put to death three men by gunfire in Afghan sports stadiums across several cities in the past week in the presence of hundreds of onlookers.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Office, or OHCHR, said that it was “appalled” by the public executions, decrying them as “a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

The Taliban have publicly executed five convicted killers since they seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021 and have also flogged hundreds of people, including women, for committing crimes such as theft, robbery, and adultery.

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The U.N. statement noted that the latest public floggings took place this past Sunday when a 12-year-old boy and a man were publicly flogged for the crime of immorality in eastern Laghman province.

On the same day, a woman and a man convicted of running away from home and adultery were flogged 35 times in public in northern Baluch province.

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