Individuals are once more subjected to whippings in Afghanistan.
Following Afghanistan's power recuperation in 2021, the Taliban reinstated severe physical penalties. Four offenders have been subjected to numerous lashings each. According to the country's Supreme Court under the leadership of the Islamic Taliban, three of these individuals were sentenced to receive 39 lashes and serve a year in prison. The fourth individual was given 39 lashes and a two-year imprisonment term. Whether these public lashes were carried out in Parwan's central province, as often seen in past incidents, remains uncertain.
The Taliban, returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, has been facing criticism from human rights organizations and the United Nations, despite this. They have gone ahead and reintroduced public punishments, such as executions and whippings, for crimes like murder, theft, and adultery. Five men, found guilty of murder, have since been subjected to public executions.
The human rights organizations and the United Nations have criticized The Commission, a presumably governing body within the Taliban regime, for reintroducing severe physical punishments. Despite the international outcry, The Commission has continued to enforce these medieval-like penalties in various parts of Afghanistan.
