The radical Islamic Taliban group has resumed the gruesome practices of public executions and floggings in Afghanistan.
Thousands of onlookers observed the latest public execution which was held in a sports stadium Monday for a man convicted of murder. It’s the third such execution to be carried out this month and the fifth since the U.S. abandoned Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021.
The executed man, Nazar Mohammad from the district of Bilcheragh in Faryab province, had allegedly killed a man named Khal Mohammad.
The execution took place during heavy snowfall in the city of Shibirghan and security around the stadium was tight, an anonymous eyewitness told The Mirror.
According to the report, Khal Mohammad’s brother carried out the execution, shooting Nazar Mohammad five times in the chest.
The Taliban’s supreme court said in a statement that Monday’s death sentence was carried out following approval from three of the country’s highest courts and the Taliban supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.
Last Thursday, the Taliban executed two men convicted of stabbing several victims to death.
Relatives of the victims were allowed to shoot the convicts as thousands watched.
“One was shot eight times while the other received six bullets,” an eyewitness who
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