Kabul:
The Taliban has directed neighborhood officials to refrain from carrying out punishments in public unless Afghanistan’s “top court” troubles the order for public execution.
The Council of Ministers has decided that no punishment will be carried out publicly when there is no require to publicise the convict and till the court troubles an order, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid stated in a tweet.
“Public executions and hanging of bodies should be avoided unless the supreme court issues an order for such an action,” Mujahid stated was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.
“If the offender is punished, the punishment must be explained so that the people know about the crime,” the Taliban spokesperson stated.
Last month, the United States had strongly condemned the Taliban’s plans to reinstate amputations and executions as a sort of punishment in Afghanistan.
During a presser, State Department spokesperson Ned Price stated the US stands with the Afghan men and women, specially with members of minority groups, and demand that the Taliban promptly cease any such atrocious abuses.
“We condemn in the strongest terms reports of reinstating amputations and executions of Afghans. The acts, the Taliban are talking about here, would constitute clear gross abuses of human rights, and we stand firm with the international community to hold perpetrators of any such abuses accountable,” Price had stated.
In September, various media reports had emerged that the Taliban’s official in charge of prisons and former justice minister of Afghanistan, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, stated punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in the nation.
After announcing the government in Afghanistan, the Taliban regime has failed to get recognition. Aside from China, Pakistan and a handful of other nations, the rest of the world is taking a wait and watch policy although maintaining an eye on the conduct of the outfit.