The Supreme Court of the caretaker government has announced that two men and one woman were publicly whipped in Khost on charges of “running away from home” and “facilitating a woman’s escape.”
In a statement, the court said that these individuals were whipped yesterday (Wednesday, September 7) based on the ruling of the primary court of the “Ali Sher” district in Khost province.
The statement further noted that one of the accused received 35 lashes and was also sentenced to one and a half years of enforced imprisonment. It mentioned that one of the other two was sentenced to two years, while the other received a three-year prison term.
The Supreme Court did not specify how many lashes the other two individuals received.
It is worth noting that since the current government regained control over Afghanistan, it has repeatedly whipped accused individuals in public and executed five people in front of hundreds of spectators.
Human rights organizations consider executions and corporal punishment of accused individuals to be against international laws and human dignity, and they are calling for an end to such practices. However, the current government has not responded positively to these requests so far.
