The Taliban’s morality police have detained a man in Balkh province on charges of “insulting sacred beliefs” and making controversial comments about Islamic history, the group’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court says 31 people have been publicly flogged in the past week across six provinces, bringing the total number punished in the past month to 81 men and women nationwide.
Taliban morality police have been raiding homes in parts of the Afghan capital to shut down in-home beauty salons, destroying equipment and threatening female beauticians and their families with arrest, residents told Afghanistan International.
Residents of Panjshir province say the Taliban has intensified restrictions on women’s movement, reportedly preventing those not wearing a burqa from travelling freely and subjecting them and those accompanying them to harassment and violence.
The Taliban has ordered dozens of families living in Kabul’s Police Township to vacate their homes, claiming their property documents are invalid, according to sources speaking to Afghanistan International.
The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has announced the arrest of six students from Kabul University, accusing them of promoting “indirect atheistic ideas.”
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that the United Nations member states failing to take effective action against widespread human rights violations in Afghanistan, four years after the Taliban returned to power.
The Taliban has publicly flogged eight individuals in Kabul and Kapisa provinces following court rulings related to drug trafficking and political dissent, according to a statement released by the group’s Supreme Court on Sunday.
A Taliban court in Kabul’s Mir Bacha Kot district publicly flogged 13 individuals on charges related to gambling and the sale and trafficking of narcotic pills, heroin, and hashish, the group’s Supreme Court announced on Thursday.
A Taliban court in Kabul has sentenced three men to public floggings and prison terms after convicting them of drug-related offences, according to a statement issued by the group’s Supreme Court.
Fawzia Koofi, a former Afghan lawmaker, has described the Taliban’s general amnesty as a “deadly deception,” warning that it is being used to lure back former soldiers, journalists, and civil activists so they can be detained, or disappeared.
The Taliban publicly flogged two men in Paktia province’s Samkanai district on charges of theft, the group’s judiciary announced on Sunday.
The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced the public flogging of five individuals, including two women, on charges of “illicit relations” in Jowzjan province and the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.