Date: 28/01/1404
TARIN KOT (Pajhwok): According to the ruling of the Supreme Judicial Office of the Southwest Zone and the Supreme Court's Judicial Deputy, more than 15 people were punished in Uruzgan today. Hafiz Samiullah Ikrama, spokesman for the governor of Uruzgan, told Pajhwok Afghan News that four were sentenced to 10 to 39 years for sodomy, four for adultery, five for robbery, one for having illicit relations with other people and one for having illicit relations with other women in public. Ikrima added that the men were also sentenced to one to two years in prison. According to him, local officials and a large number of the general public were also present during the implementation of this punishment.

This case illustrates the Taliban’s continued use of public executions and corporal punishment as instruments of judicial control, particularly through morality-based charges related to sexual conduct. The involvement of senior judicial bodies and the public staging of the punishments signal institutional endorsement and the use of spectacle to reinforce social discipline. The absence of any reference to due process safeguards underscores patterns of arbitrary punishment and the normalization of extreme violence within Taliban judicial practice.