Islamabad - Afghanistan’s Taliban have announced fresh public floggings of convicts, both women and men, in defiance of renewed United Nations calls
UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately a
KABUL (Pajhwok): UN experts have called on the Taliban to immediately stop public floggings and all forms of torturous, cruel and degrading forms of punishments
the ministry of vice and virtue. this is a ministry that was arguably the most feared 20 years ago, when the taliban was last in power. this is effectively the moral police. this is a ministry that was responsible for violations of the taliban s rules, ranging from things like a woman displaying too much of her wrist, or people listening to music, to men s beards not being the correct length. this is the ministry that carried out the public floggings, the public executions, the stonings that we saw taking place 20 years ago. so if you are a girl or a woman in afghanistan right now, your very worst fears are on the brink of being realized. thanks for the update there, arwa damon in turkey. the bide dmangs is scrambling right now to contain a political fire storm with france over a new security deal