Taliban official says 9 men lashed in public in Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Taliban official says 9 men lashed in public in Afghanistan

January 17, 2023

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nine men were lashed in public in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as punishment for different crimes under the country’s new rulers, a Taliban-appointed official said.

The lashings were the latest example of harsh policies imposed by the Taliban since they seized power in the country in August 2021 — policies that reflect their interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.

Haji Zaid, a spokesman for the governor’s office in southern Kandahar province, said in a tweet that the lashings took place at the sports stadium in the city of Kandahar, the provincial capital.

Each man was lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local people, he said. Zaid’s tweet did not elaborate on the crimes the nine were accused of or provide other details.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. "Ten lashes will convince anyone."

— a sober line in a Robert Heinlein novel.

[Woodswalker]

2. So the 20 yrs of military presence and trillions of dollars

To bring womens rights, democracy and westernize a country that was still in the stone age playing polo with a beheaded animal has all gone to shit. That money could have given Americans a healthcare system the even Europeans would have looked up to. Instead a bunch of fat cat corporatists got even fatter and richer.