Torture & Ill-Treatment

Protection from cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment is non-derogable. This section includes decrees enabling corporal punishment, humiliation, or field punishments without medical oversight.

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May 14, 2024

DEC3-05142024

Taliban flogged a woman and a man in Ghazni for an alleged extramarital relationship.

May 19, 2024

DEC3-05192024

Taliban punished two individuals for adultery in Badakhshan province.

May 26, 2024

DEC3-05262024

Taliban punished 1 woman and 7 men in Ghor province for moral crimes.

May 30, 2024

DEC3-05302024

Taliban punished four individuals in Kunduz province.

June 2, 2024

DEC3-06022024

Taliban punished two individuals in Kapisa province.

June 4, 2024

DEC3-06042024

Taliban punished two individuals in Panjshir province for illicit relations and fleeing home.

June 16, 2024

DEC3-06162024

Former soldier in Khost beaten and imprisoned on verbal order by Taliban intelligence.

June 27, 2024

DEC3-06272024

Punishment of a woman and a man in Kunar for illicit relations, and punishment for 3 persons in Paktika for illicit relations.

July 1, 2024

DEC3-07012024-A

Written court order leads to public flogging for adultery in Panjshir.

July 1, 2024

DEC3-07012024-B

The Taliban punished 4 individuals for same-sex relationships in Parwan province.

July 2, 2024

DEC3-07022024

Written court orders lead to mass public flogging & imprisonment of 18 individuals in Uruzgan for vague moral offenses.

July 3, 2024

DEC3-07032024-A

Written court orders lead to public flogging of 2 individuals in Badghis for adultery.

July 3, 2024

DEC3-07032024-B

Taliban gang rape and sexual torture of a woman in a Taliban prison.

July 11, 2024

DEC3-07112024

Taliban intelligence carry out extrajudicial assault of a man and his two sons in Ghor over legal dispute.

July 13, 2023

DEC3-07132023

Implementation of a punitive sentence on over four individuals, including one woman, was carried out in the Paghman district of Kabul province.

July 24, 2024

DEC3-07242024

Former Takhar provincial official tortured in Taliban custody in Takhar.

August 7, 2023

DEC3-08072023-A

The execution of disciplinary punishment on more than four individuals in Faryab province.

August 7, 2023

DEC3-08072023-B

The public sentencing of four individuals, including one woman, to corporal punishment for adultery and sodomy, in Faryab province.

August 14, 2024

DEC3-08142024

Taliban fighters carry out extrajudicial killing of newlywed young man in Kabul for overtaking vehicle.

August 17, 2023

DEC3-08172023

The execution of disciplinary punishment on over 19 individuals took place in Sar-e Pol province.

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