The Taliban authorities have carried out the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year.
A military jeep is parked near the national flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan during a dust storm on August 12, 2022 in Bamian, Afghanistan.The Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year, a spokesman said.
The decision to carry out the punishment was "made very carefully," Mujahid said, following approval by three of the country's highest courts and the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada. During the previous Taliban rule of the country in the late 1990s, the group carried out public executions, floggings and stoning of those convicted of crimes in Taliban courts.
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