Taliban Flog Nine People, Including Two Women, in Kabul and Kunduz

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that in two separate incidents, public flogging sentences were carried out on nine individuals — including two women and seven men — in the provinces of Kabul and Kunduz.

According to the court’s official statement, on Tuesday May 20, a woman and a man in Qala-e-Zal district of Kunduz province were sentenced to 39 lashes each in public and three years of imprisonment for committing “adultery.”

In another statement, the court said that on Monday May 19, seven others, including one woman, were flogged in public in Kabul city.

Among them, a woman and a man were sentenced to 39 lashes and two years in prison for “adultery,” while the remaining five individuals were punished for the purchase, sale, and trafficking of narcotic substances — including “K” and “Zikap” tablets and hashish — receiving between 20 to 35 lashes and prison terms ranging from eight months to three years.

Since regaining control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have repeatedly implemented corporal punishments such as public floggings and executions. These actions have drawn strong condemnation from international human rights organizations.

Such groups consider corporal punishment a clear violation of human rights and human dignity and have repeatedly called for an immediate halt to these practices.