Journalists write that the accused was fired three times. This was done by the father of the victim the man killed in 2017.
The Taliban terrorist organization, which took power in Afghanistan, executed a person accused of murder on Wednesday, December 7th. According to Reuters, this was the first public execution officially sanctioned since the radical Islamist group came to power.
A person accused of murder was reportedly executed in Farah province in 2017. According to group spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, senior Taliban officials were present at the execution.
The publication writes that the execution was carried out by the father of the victim, who shot the accused three times. The case was investigated by three courts and upheld by the Taliban’s top spiritual leader in southern Kandahar province.
Mujahid said that Deputy Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar, as well as Afghanistan Chief Justice, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Minister of Education, attended the execution.
UN response
Journalists write that the United Nations mission in Afghanistan and the representative of the UN Human Rights Office in Geneva made statements condemning the execution and urged the Taliban to immediately impose a moratorium on such punishments.
Jeremy Lawrence, representative of the UN Human Rights Office, said that the death penalty is incompatible with the basic principles of human rights and its implementation is incompatible with full respect for the right to life.
A Taliban spokesman said that punitive justice is the right of the victims’ families.
“If they want to forgive, they can forgive. If they want to execute, they can execute … revenge is a divine order and must be followed,” said Taliban deputy spokesman Yusuf Ahmadi.
death penalty in Afghanistan
The material states that executions by flogging and stoning took place in public places during the previous rule of the Taliban in 1996-2001. Subsequently, such punishments became rare and were condemned by subsequent foreign-backed Afghan governments, but the death penalty remained legal in Afghanistan.
Previously Focus He wrote that the Taliban will ban the PUBG video game and the TikTok social network in Afghanistan. The Sharia Law Enforcement Agency has concluded that the PUBG game is giving wrong values. Since the Taliban took power, it has banned around 23 million websites for moral reasons.
We also remember that Russia agreed to sell wheat and gasoline to the Taliban at a discount. This was the first major international agreement the Taliban has made since taking power last year.
Source: Focus
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