Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada last month ordered judges fully implement some aspects of Islamic law such as public executions, stoning, flogging or, in the case of thieves, amputation of limbs. The Sunni Islamist movement had already carried out several public floggings, but this Wednesday’s execution is the first announced by the Taliban since they regained power.
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The execution was carried out by shooting, and the victim’s father carried out the execution by firing three bullets from an AK-47
The execution of the prisoner charged with murder five years ago and then robbing the victim of a motorcycle and a mobile phone, It took place in the western province of Farah, the main Taliban government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said in a statement.
“The execution was carried out by shooting, and the victim’s father carried out the execution by firing three bullets from an AK-47”Mujahid explained, noting that the sentence was carried out in the presence of fundamentalist authorities and other citizens. The executed man was named Tajmir and resided in Herat province.
“The high court was instructed to apply this qisas order during a public gathering of residents,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in the document.
The qisas is an Islamic principle similar to the law of retaliation, which consists of making the offender suffer damage equal to what he caused. It is unclear how the execution was carried out. The Taliban specified in the statement that the man had pleaded guilty.
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severe restrictions
In his first tenure at the head of Afghanistan (1996-2001), the Taliban regularly inflicted corporal punishment in public, including floggings and executions in Kabul’s national stadium. When they returned to power, the Islamists had promised that such measures would no longer be applied, although they implemented increasingly severe restrictions, especially for women.
Women have been gradually pushed out of public life. They cannot travel without being accompanied by a male relative and must wear a full veil in public, preferably a burqa.
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The Taliban also closed secondary schools for girls in most provinces. Mujahid assured that the case on Wednesday had been examined by a series of courts before reaching the Supreme Court. “The case was examined very precisely,” he said in the statement.
“In the end, they ordered to apply the sharia law of retribution to the murderer.” Akhundzada rules by decree from Kandahar, the city where the movement was born. The statement specifies that a dozen court officials and representatives
Taliban attended the execution.
Santiago Andres Venera Salazar
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from AFP and EFE
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