Taliban Flog 13 People, Including 5 Women, in Public in Jawzjan and Khost

According to a statement issued by the court on Saturday, April 12, two women in Darzab district of Jawzjan province were each sentenced to 39 lashes in public and three years of imprisonment on charges of “extramarital relations and fleeing from home.”

Meanwhile, the Taliban Supreme Court stated that in Khost province, one woman and two men were flogged in public for extramarital relations, and two women and six other men were flogged on charges including extramarital relations, insulting religious sanctities, bribery, and “false reporting.”

Based on the statement, each of these individuals received between 35 to 39 lashes and were also sentenced to two to five years of imprisonment.

This comes as the Taliban have recently intensified the implementation of punishments such as executions and floggings in public. On Friday, the group also executed four individuals in the provinces of Nimroz, Farah, and Badghis.