UN Human Rights Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence on Wednesday condemned the execution ... murder in what is the first capital punishment carried out in public since the Taliban returned to power ...

When the Taliban previously ruled the country in the late 1990s, public executions, floggings and stonings were very common. Fourteen people were publicly lashed in a football stadium in eastern ...

Last month, the Taliban executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents returned to power. The execution was carried out with an assault ...

On December 7, 2022, the Taliban publicly executed a man in Farah city, Farah province, in what appears to be the first public execution since seizing power in August 2021. "Senior de facto ...

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 ...

Many Afghans now fear their country is reverting back to the brutal first rule of the Taliban when public executions, floggings and other punishments were meted out. Afghan journalist Tajuden ...

Last month, the Taliban executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents returned to power. The execution was carried out with an assault ...