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Afghanistan's ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country's southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted ...
The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out in the ...
The United Nations has strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power, and called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices. 02/26/2024 10:27 -0500
Public executions have existed throughout Afghanistan's history. The former Afghan government took important steps away from the use of the death penalty, but they have continued with the Taliban returning to power in August 2021. [4] [5] Some executions have been recently condemned by the United Nations. UN experts have called on Afghan ...
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers put a man to death in public on Tuesday in the eastern province of Laghman, the supreme court said, the second confirmed official execution since the Islamist movement ...
Public executions and amputations are used to enforce Islamic behaviour. In northwestern Afghanistan Dostum continues to strengthen his independent position in Mazar-i-Sharif . With the destruction of Kabul, almost two-thirds of Afghanistan's total population is living in territory controlled by the Uzbek general.
Last execution date Name Crime Method D Afghanistan: 13 November 2024 [112] Mohammad Ayaz Asad murder: public firearm: D Bahrain: 27 July 2019 [113] Ali Mohammed al-Arab, Ahmad Issa al-Mulla and 1 unnamed man terrorism: firing squad: D Bangladesh: 27 July 2023 [114] Mia Mohammad Mohiuddin and Md Jahangir Alam murder: hanging: A Bhutan: 1974 ...
In an interview with The Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, which sometimes took place in front of crowds at a stadium, and he ...