Posted on 12/07/2022 5:25:08 PM PST by george76
The Taliban put a murder suspect to death Wednesday, the fundamentalist regime’s first official public execution since retaking control of Afghanistan last year.
The man accused of a fatal stabbing in 2017 was shot and killed by the victim’s father in the western Farah province. The killing was attended by at least a dozen senior government officials, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
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the capital punishment was sanctioned by the Taliban’s reclusive supreme spiritual leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada, according to Mujahid.
The mother of the victim, named only as Mustafa, told the BBC that she demanded that the suspect, identified as Tajmir, be executed. A notice was then posted for “all citizens” to witness the public slaying...
“Taliban came to me and begged me to forgive this infidel,” she reportedly said. “They insist me to forgive this man in sake of God, but I told them that this man must be executed and must be buried the same as he did to my son.”
“This could be a lesson to other people,” she continued. “If you do not execute him he will commit other crimes in the future.”
The killing came after the United Nations human rights office called on the Taliban to halt public floggings of accused robbers and adulterers, which the hardline group began administering last month after Akhunzada told judges the lashings were in line with Sharia law.
Whippings and execution by stoning were a hallmark of the Taliban’s medieval rule of Afghanistan
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Officials had promised a kinder, gentler Taliban 2.0 with an emphasis on women’s rights, but have since banned women from most jobs and many public places while forbidding girls to attend middle and high school.
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A two-fer?
For once, the Taliban got it right.
The man accused of a fatal stabbing in 2017 was shot and killed by the victim’s father in the western Farah province. The killing was attended by at least a dozen senior government officials, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
Interesting (unless it's just bad reporting) that it calls the executed man a "suspect" and "accused" but does not mention a trial or conviction.
Interesting also that the executioner was the father of the victim.
Why does the media make it sound as if the Taliban meting out public punishments is a bad thing when our “friend” and “ally” Saudi Arabia has been doing the same thing on Friday afternoons like forever? I witnessed one of those in Riyadh in the mid ‘90’s.
“Alleged” is a western affectation.
Exactly. The Saudis and Taliban share the Wahabbi version of Salafi Islam.
Saudi Arabia is Taliban Afghanistan with oil
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