Three women and 11 men were flogged on Wednesday on the orders of an Afghan court after they were found guilty of theft and 'moral crimes', a provincial official said.
14 people found guilty of theft and moral crimes were flogged in Afghanistan on Wednesday. The maximum number of lashes received by those found guilty was 39.
The lashings are the first to be confirmed since the Taliban's supreme leader ordered judges this month to fully enforce Islamic law, or sharia, saying corporal punishment was obligatory for certain crimes. "Fourteen people were given discretionary punishment, of which 11 were men and three were women," he said,Supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered judges this month to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves.Carefully examine the files of thieves, kidnappers and seditionists. Those files in which all the sharia conditions of hudud and qisas have been fulfilled, you are obliged to implement.
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