Taliban carry out 1st public execution since Afghanistan takeover – National | 24CA News

The Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing one other man, the primary public execution because the former insurgents took over Afghanistan final yr, a spokesman stated.

The announcement underscored the intentions by Afghanistan’s new rulers to proceed hardline insurance policies applied since they took over the nation in August 2021 and to stay to their interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia.

The execution passed off in western Farah province earlier than a whole bunch of spectators and lots of high Taliban officers, together with from the capital of Kabul and the province, in keeping with Zabihullah Mujahid, the highest Taliban authorities spokesman.

The choice to hold out the punishment was “made very carefully,” Mujahid stated, following approval by three of the nation’s highest courts and the Taliban supreme chief, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.

The executed man, recognized as Tajmir from Herat province, was convicted of killing one other man 5 years in the past and stealing his bike and cell phone. The sufferer was recognized as Mustafa from neighboring Farah province. Many Afghan males use just one title.

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Taliban safety forces had arrested Tajmir after the sufferer’s household accused him of the crime, stated an announcement from Mujahid, the spokesman. The assertion didn’t say when the arrest passed off however added that Tajmir had purportedly confessed to the killing.

During the earlier Taliban rule of the nation within the late Nineties, the group carried out public executions, floggings and stoning of these convicted of crimes in Taliban courts.

After they overran Afghanistan in 2021, within the last weeks of the U.S. and NATO forces’ pullout from the nation after 20 years of battle, the Taliban had initially promised to permit for ladies’s and minority rights.

Instead, they’ve restricted rights and freedoms, together with imposing a ban on woman’s schooling past the sixth grade. They have additionally carried out public lashings throughout totally different provinces, punishing a number of women and men accused of theft, adultery or operating away from residence.

The former insurgents have struggled of their transition from warfare to governing amid an financial downturn and the worldwide group’s withholding of official recognition.

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